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A  MEDICAL   HISTORY 


OF    THE 


STATE    OF    INDIANA 


By  G.  W.   H.  KEMPER,   M.D. 


ILLUSTRATED 


chicago,  ill. 

American   Medical  Association   Press 

1911 


Copyright.  1911 

by 

G.  W.  H.  Kemper,  M.D. 

Muncie.  Indiana 


TO  THE   PHYSICIANS  OF  IXDIAXA 

WHOM  I   HAVE   KNOWX 

AND 

TO  THOSE  I   KNOW 

THIS   BOOK   IS  AFFECTIONATELY   DEDICATED 

BY  THE  AUTHOR 

G.  W.  H.  K. 


FOREWOED. 

This  volume  is  a  collection  of  the  several 
articles  published  in  The  Journal  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Association  during  the  years  1909 
and  1910  and  the  earlier  months  of  1911^  and 
entitled  •'Sketches  of  the  Medical  History  of 
Indiana.'"  In  the  present  form  the  articles  have 
been  revised,  lyistakes  corrected  and  new  his- 
torical matter  added,  thus  bringing  the  work  up 
to  a  later  date.  The  encouragement  I  have 
received  from  numerous  readers  has  stimulated 
me  to  reproduce  the  results  of  my  labor  in  a  more 
permanent  form. 

Two  years  and  a  half  ago,  at  the  solicitation 
of  friends,  I  began  the  task  of  preparing  and 
writing  the  articles,  and  I  have  bestowed  time, 
patience  and  care  upon  them.  Biographical 
sketches  are  confined  to  deceased  physicians;  the 
living  are  inentioned  only  in  connection  with 
historical  matters. 

I  became  a  member  of  the  State  Medical 
Society  in  1867,  and  have  been  a  faithful  attend- 
ant at  the  sessions  of  that  body  ever  since.  I 
knew  personally  many  of  the  founders  of  the 
Society.  Dr.  W.  H.  Wishard,  who  is  still  living 
and  was  present  at  the  state  medical  convention 
in  1849,  has  been  a  personal  friend  since  1862, 
wlien  I  first  met  him  on  the  battle  field  of  Shiloh. 
I  was  associated  with  Drs.  Bobbs,  Mears,  Parvin, 
Field,  Hibberd  and  many  others  who  were  active 
members  of  the  profession  fifty  years  ago — men 


viii  FOREWORD. 

who  were  instrumental  in  elevating  the  standard 
of  medicine  in  Indiana,  as  well  as  lajdng  the 
foundation  of  our  present  State  Medical  Asso- 
ciation. 

These  men,  all  save  one,  have  passed  awa_y,  and 
I  have  lived  to  make  the  acquaintance  of  a  new 
generation  of  ph3^sicians.  My  service  as  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  on  N'ecrology  gave  me  a 
knowledge  of  the  names  of  deceased  members, 
and  the  preparation  of  an  "Index  of  the  Trans- 
actions of  the  State  Society  from  1849  to  1900" 
gave  me  an  acquaintance  with  medical  men  and 
medical  articles  in  those  volumes. 

The  time  seems  opportune  for  a  medical  his- 
tory of  Indiana.  In  1916  our  state  will  be  100 
years  old,  and  the  century  has  produced  no  medi- 
cal history.  Some  one  ought  to  produce  such  a 
work;  it  seems  fitting  that  I  should  undertake 
the  task. 

While  the  articles  were  appearing  in  the  Jour- 
val,  a  few  typographical  errors  escaped  detec- 
tion; these  have  generally  been  corrected.  Sev- 
enty-five or  sixty  years  ago  it  was  quite  common 
to  give  only  the  surname,  or  initial  letter  of 
christian  name,  of  individuals  when  used  in 
print.  This  was  common  in  the  Transactions. 
After  considerable  search,  I  have  been  able  to 
supjoly  nearly  all  of  the  deficient  names.  I  wish 
especially  to  call  attention  to  the  correctness  and 
completeness  of  names  in  the  index. 

I  pride  myself  on  the  correctness  of  dates  and 
references.  Eeference  to  the  Transactions,  med- 
ical journals  and  books  have  been  verified  by 
referrino;  to  the  original  articles,  and  the  proofs 


FOREMORD.  ix 

repeatedly  read  by  copy.  This  has  required  time 
and  much  care,  but  I  feel  a  satisfaction  in  know- 
ing that  my  work  will  be  appreciated  by  the 
reader  seeking  information.  In  spite  of  all  my 
precaution  a  few  insignificant  errors  may  have 
escaped  detection.  If  any  are  found  I  shall 
greatly  regret  it. 

My  preference  has  been  to  first  honor  the  ear- 
lier physicians  of  Indiana,  and  secure  knowledge 
of  them  while  their  relatives  and  friends  are  yet 
living. 

A  few  pictures  of  lionored  physicians  have 
been  inserted. 

I  wish  here  to  express  my  thanks  to  all  who 
have  aided  me  in  my  work.  I  dare  not  begin  to 
name  the  individuals.  Generally,  every  request 
for  information  has  1)een  cheerfully  complied 
with;  a  few  failed  to  respond. 

I  lay  no  claim  to  perfection  in  my  work:  I 
wish  it  was  a  better  book.  I  have  toiled  at  my 
task  in  season  and  out  of  season.  My  professional 
brethren  will  know  how  to  sympathize  wdth  me. 
And  while  the  world  is  disposed  to  be  indifferent 
to  others'  burdens,  it  may  soften  criticism  to 
know — if  I  may  be  pardoned  for  comparing  a 
small  affair  to  a  large  one — as  the  great  Dr. 
Johnson  said  of  his  dictionary,  ''that  it  was  writ- 
ten, not  in  the  soft  obscurities  of  retirement  or 
under  the  shelter  of  academic  bowers,  but  amid 
inconvenience  and  distraction." 

G.  W.  H.  Kempee. 
Muncie.  Ind.,  June  1,  1911. 


IXTEODUOTIOX. 

'•He  took  the  suffering  human  race; 

He  read  each  wound — each  weakness  clear — 
And  struck  his  finger  on  the  phice 

And   said,   'Thou  ailest   here — and   here.' " 

— Matthew  Arnold. 

"Why  not  idealize  the  doctor  some?"  is  the 
key-note  of  the  biography  of  Indiana  physicians 
presented  to  his  professional  confreres  by  Dr. 
Kemper  in  this  volume.  The  writer  has  a  genius 
for  histor}^,  and  as  the  first  century  of  our  State's 
existence  is  drawing  to  a  close,  it  is  eminently 
proper  that  Dr.  Kemper  should  now  assume  the 
task,  and  Avrite  a  medical  history  of  Indiana.  Hi? 
]ife  has  happily  fallen  in  the  greatest  era  of  devel- 
opment and  progress  known  to  man.  Most  of 
this  he  has  seen  and  part  of  it  he  has  been.  He 
has  brought  to  his  w^ork  an  infinite  faith  and  a 
reverent  hope,  and  surely  the  mind  which  has 
I'eceived  so  much  has  trusted  the  Power  by  which 
it  has  worked  and  lived.  His  threescore  and  ten 
years  have  seen  civilization  extend  over  the  great- 
est and  fairest  valley  of  the  world.  He  has  seen 
his  country  rent  Avith  strife,  and.  followins:  his 


DR.  ALEMBERT  WINTHROP 
BRAYTON,  of  Indianapolis,  so  well 
known  to  the  physicians  of  this  state, 
is  thoroughly  conversant  with  med- 
ical journalism,  is  in  touch  with  his- 
torical matters  and  comprehends  the 
needs  of  our  profession  second  to  no 
other  person.  At  my  request  he  con- 
ti'ibutes  an  introductory  chapter  to 
this  volume. — G.W.H.K. 


xii  INTRODUCTION. 

duty  and  his  will^  he  has  taken  a  worthy  part  in 
the  conflict;  both  as  soldier  and  as  snrgeon,  in  the 
faith  that  the  destiny  of  organized  nature  and  of 
human  institutions  is  alike  amelioration  and  bet- 
terment. For  the  medical  jorofession,  more  than 
any  other,  imparts  to  its  votaries  a  reverence  and 
wisdom  born  of  thought  and  knowledge,  inspiring 
both  cheerfulness  and  hope. 

The  life  of  any  man  rightly  and  courageously 
conducted  is  the  true  romance.  To  the  soldier- 
surgeons  of  our  great  national  struggle  such  a  life 
in  its  preparation,  in  its  fulfilment  and  in  its 
aftermath  of  experiences,  memories  and  reveries, 
must  have  yielded  the  imagination  a  higher  J  03^ 
than  any  fiction.  But  such  a  life  does  not  con- 
tent itself  with  dreams  and  fancies;  it  tends  to 
reason  and  deduction,  to  the  orderly  considera- 
tion of  the  things  done  and  the  personality  of  the 
doers,  and  their  relation  to  the  present  and  the 
future  as  well  as  the  past,  and  so  arises  the 
recording  of  history  and  biography.  Thus,  we 
take  it,  have  naturally  developed  these  "Sketches 
of  the  Medical  History  of  Indiana,"  by  Dr. 
Kemper. 

And  to  this  inherent  taste  and  sense  exercised 
through  a  half  century  of  writing  and  note-tak- 
ing, of  wide  acquaintance,  combined  with  great 
geniality  of  nature  and  the  possession  of  an  un- 
usual memory  for  facts  and  faces,  and  a  wise 
foresight,  is  due  the  collection  of  the  material  for 
the  present  work.  The  author  has  shown  in  the 
book  throughout,  the  genius  for  studious  research 
in  the  collection  and  arrangement  of  details;  the 
patience  which  goes  on  like  the  stars,  unhasting 
and  unresting. 


INTRODUCTION.  xiii 

This  work  of  Dr.  Kemper's,  therefore,  is  not  a 
series  of  camp-fire  stories  or  the  exaggerated  fan- 
cies of  the  old  soldier  "who  shoulders  his  crutch 
and  shows  how  fields  were  won/'  It  is  a  serious 
consideration  of  the  progress  of  medicine  in  Indi- 
ana from  the  time  the  Xorthwest  Territory  was 
wrested  from  the  British  in  1799,  to  the  present. 
The  author  has  consulted  histories  of  the  early 
days;  he  has  collected  and  edited  the  historical 
papers  of  Dr.  Hubhard  M.  Smith  of  Yincennes — 
the  town  where  the  first  medical  society  of  the 
Territories  was  organized,  in  1817.  In  this  hook 
may  be  read  the  medical  history  of  a  number  of 
the  cities  and  counties  of  Indiana,  contributed  by 
distinguished  deceased  and  living  physicians  of 
the  state. 

Dr.  Kemper  has  given  us  just  and  true  biog- 
raphies of  most  of  those  of  our  confreres  who 
have  gone  to  their  eternal  reward.  Here  a  fine 
discrimination  was  required  and  has  been  exer- 
cised. The  early  physicians,  those  who  rendered 
notable  service  in  medicine  and  surgery  or  in 
education,  have  received  due  measure  of  honor. 
It  may  be  well  doubted  if  any  sister  State  has 
had  or  will  have  so  just  and  complete  a  history  of 
its  departed  physicians  as  Dr.  Kemper  has  given 
in  his  stories  of  our  honored  dead.  The  reports 
began  in  1879  by  Drs.  J.  R.  Beck  and  James  F. 
ITibberd  of  the  Section  on  IvTecrology,  and  their 
continuation  in  later  years  by  Dr.  Kemper  in  the 
State  Society  "Transactions,"  have  made  this 
part  of  the  work  more  perfect  than  usual  in  such 
lists.  The  records  were  usually  wTitten  by  per- 
sonal friends  of  the  deceased,  or  the  secretary  of 


xiv  nTRODUCTION. 

the  County  Society,  and  often  threw  side-lights 
on  local  history  and  environment. 

With  the  passing  of  the  old  and  stately  annual 
volume  of  the  "Transactions,"  and  the  substitu- 
tion therefor  of  a  monthly  medical  journal,  there 
were  losses  as  well  as  gains.  It  is  doubtful  if  a 
single  complete  file  of  The  Journal  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Association  exists  in  Indianapolis 
outside  those  of  the  City  and  State  Libraries. 
The  writer  knows  of  no  others.  Therefore,  the 
members  have  no  permanent  mailing  list  or 
other  commensurate  means  of  knowing  who  are 
the  members  of  the  State  Society.  There  are  no 
longer  adequate  obituaries;  the  Society  evidently 
has  no  time  to  stop  and  gather  up  its  dead.  The 
present  writer  believes  that  The  Journal  of  the 
Indiana  State  Medical  Association  has  better 
justified  its  being  by  the  publication  of  Dr. 
Kemper's  "Sketches  of  the  Medical  History  of 
Indiana"  than  by  any  other  work  it  has  accom- 
plished. 

Purely  medical  science  will  find  expression 
for  itself;  it  cannot  be  suppressed.  The  really 
valuable  papers  and  discussions  of  any  State 
will  continue  to  appear  in  the  great  weekly 
journals  of  the  country,  as  they  are  now  doing. 
But  the  things  of  the  heart  and  the  life,  those 
which  have  to  do  with  the  social  nature  of  man 
in  his  own  day  and  generation — the  records  of 
love  and  service  for  the  living  and  respect  and 
honor  for  the  dead,  are  not  likely  to  be  sympa- 
thetically recorded  by  journals  devoted  to  organi- 
zation and  centralization. 

Dr.  Kemper's  work  appeals  to  our  sense  and 
knowledge  of  the  old  love  and  loyalty  which 
develops  in  the  hearts  and  homes  of  those  who 


INTRODUCTION.  xv 

have  grown  up  together;  who  in  medical  work 
have  developed  their  own  rules  and  regulations  of 
social  life  and  government  in  democratic  assem- 
blies; who  elect  their  own  officers  and  conduct 
their  own  business  and  with  whom  organization 
is  a  means  rather  than  an  end.  For  the  greatest 
enemy  of  government  is  government  itself ,  and 
it  becomes  dangerous  and  anarchical  to  the  extent 
that  it  is  centralized  and  organized  as  an  object 
in  itself  or  for  those  who  administer  it  rather 
than  for  those  who  formed  it  and  for  whose  peace 
and  happiness  it  was  established. 

'No  introduction  to  Dr.  Kemper's  book  would 
be  complete  without  some  brief  notes  of  his  biog- 
raphy and  a  just  emphasis  upon  his  life-long 
interest  and  success  in  the  different  fields  of 
obstetrics,  medicine  and  surgery.  His  medical 
life  has  covered  a  period  of  fifty  years.  His 
opportunity  was  great,  as  the  sketch  of  his  life 
here  given  shows.  Born  in  Eush  County,  Dec. 
16,  1839,  he  was  educated  in  the  common  schools 
and  for  two  years  in  a  country  printing  office. 
He  began  the  study  of  medicine  with  Dr.  John 
W.  Moodey  of  Greensburg  in  his  twenty-first 
year.  He  had  read  but  a  few  weeks  when  Gov- 
ernor Morton  called  for  6,000  troops  from  Indi- 
ana to  assemble  at  Indianapolis.  Dr.  Kemper 
enlisted  and  served  as  a  private  in  the  Seventh 
Eegiment  of  Indiana  Volunteers  during  the 
three  months'  service,  and  had  the  distinction 
of  being  present  at  the  first  battle  of  the  Civil 
War  —  Philippi,  W.  Ya.  On  Sept.  25,  1861,  he 
reenlisted  in  the  Seventeenth  Indiana  Volunteers 
as  hospital  steward,  and  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  assistant  surgeon  of  the  same  regiment 


xvi  INTRODUCTION. 

—  and  this  prior  to  his  graduation  —  a  position 
he  filled  until  the  expiration  of  his  three  years' 
enlistment.  He  attended  a  course  of  lectures  at 
the  University  of  Michigan  during  the  session  of 
1864-65,  and  went  from  that  institution  to  a 
spring  course  at  the  Long  Island  College  Hos- 
pital of  Brooklyn,  I^.  Y.,  where  he  graduated  in 
June,  1865.  The  same  year  he  located  in  Mun- 
cie,  his  present  home,  only  being  absent  from 
general  practice  when  traveling  in  Europe  and 
Asia.  He  spent  some  time  in  the  Mediterranean 
countries,  being  especially  attracted  to  Egypt  and 
Palestine.  He  served  five  years  as  coroner  of 
Delaware  County,  and  for  over  thirty  3^ears  as 
examining  surgeon  for  pensions.  He  has  been 
treasurer  and  president  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Society,  professor  of  the  history  of 
medicine  in  the  Indiana  Medical  College,  and  in 
the  Medical  School  of  Indiana  University. 

Under  all  these  varying  functions  he  has  kept 
his  eye  single  to  the  practical  applications  of  his 
art  in  the  healing  and  prevention  of  disease  and 
injury,  and  incidentally  prepared  himself  to  be 
the  historian  of  the  Indiana  medical  profession. 
He  is  the  ideal  representative  of  the  definition 
of  the  physician  given  by  Hippocrates :  "The 
good  man  skilled  in  healing." 

At  no  time  in  his  long  career  has  Dr.  Kemper 
permitted  his  talent  to  lie  buried,  nor  his  light 
hidden.  He  has  contributed  more  than  fifty 
elaborate  articles  to  medical  journals  and  our 
state  medical  society,  relating  to  medicine,  sur- 
gery and  obstetrics.  In  the  State  Transactions 
for  1901  he  furnished  a  complete  index  of  all 


IXTIWDLCTIOX.  xvii 

the  transactions  from  1849  to  1900.  In  1897  he 
published  a  booklet  entitled  "Uses  of  Suffering," 
and  in  1905  another  entitled  "The  World's  Anat- 
omists.'^ 

Dr.  Kemper  was  the  first  to  report  a  case  of 
mycetoma  in  the  United  States;  the  "madura 
foot/'  or  "fungus  foot  of  India,"  which  is  caused 
by  a  growth  allied  to  the  ray  fungus  of  the  more 
common  disease,  actinomycosis  hominis  (Ameri- 
can Practitioner,  Vol.  xiy,  p.  129).  This  dis- 
covery was  made  by  Dr.  Kemper  more  than 
twenty  years  before  the  widespread  appearance 
of  blastomycosis,  spirochotrosis,  and  actinomy- 
cosis through  the  United  States  was  generally 
recognized,  although  cases  of  these  diseases  are 
few  in  number  and  their  occurrence  not  infre- 
quently overlooked.  Dr.  Kemper's  case  had  all 
the  clinical  indications  of  the  disease  in  question, 
and  there  is  no  reasonal)le  doubt  of  its  pathology 
as  determined  and  published  in  his  report. 

He  has  always  taken  a  great  interest  in  the 
subject  of  Cesarean  section.  His  recent  paper 
before  the  State  Medical  Association  at  the  Fort 
Wayne  meeting  in  September.  1910,  is  probably 
the  only  paper  extant  which  gives  a  concise  and 
yet  complete  account  of  every  Cesarean  operation 
performed  in  any  single  state  of  the  Union.  This 
essay,  published  in  the  April,  1911,  issue  of  The 
Journal  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Associa- 
tion, is  entitled  "A  Plea  for  the  Cesarean  Opera- 
tion, Based  on  a  Eeport  of  Fifty-Three  Cases  Per- 
formed in  Indiana." 

If  the  teachings  and  experience  of  Dr.  Kemper 
could    have    been    resorted    to    in    earlier    vears, 


xviii  INTRODUCTION. 

Cesarean  section  might  not  have  been  left  for  so 
long  a  period  to  outside  towns  and  county-seat 
surgeons.  Commenting  on  Dr.  Kemper's  paper, 
Dr.  Walker  Schell  no  donbt  expressed  the  senti- 
ment of  the  society  when  he  said  in  his  discus- 
sion: ^^This  society  feels  very  grateful  to  Dr. 
Kemper  for  his  able  paper,  for  the  interest  he  has 
shown  in  Indiana  medicine  in  preserving  this 
history.  Certainly  we  ought  to  be  proud  that  a 
man  of  his  years  should  grow  old  so  gracefully. 
May  God  preserve  him  long  in  our  midst !" 

In  his  sympathetic  note  on  Dr.  John  S.  Bobbs, 
in  these  sketches,  Dr.  Kemper  states  that  "the 
crowning  glory  of  Dr.  Bobbs'  professional  life  is 
his  well-earned  reputation  as  the  Founder  of 
Cholecy^totomy." 

This  operation  was  performed  June  15,  1867, 
in  a  rented  room  over  a  drug  store,  now  the  site 
of  the  Indianapolis  Commercial  Club.  A  brass 
tablet,  similar  in  scope  to  that  commemorating 
Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  south  wall  of  the  Clay- 
pool  Hotel,  should  be  set  in  its  front  by  the  state 
society,  in  commemoration  of  Dr.  Bobbs.* 

An  article  of  some  seventeen  pages  by  Dr. 
Kemper,  with  the  title  "Affections  of  the  Gall 
Bladder  Tending  to  Eesult  in  Cutaneous  Biliary 
Fistula,"  was  read  before  the  Indiana  State  Med- 
ical Society  May  20,  1879,  and  was  published 
in  the  Transactions  for  the  same  year,  on  page 
120.     This  notable  paper  of  some  10,000  words. 


*  The  patient,  Mrs.  Z.  Burnsworth,  is  still  residing  at 
McCordsville,  Ind.  On  June  12,  1909,  she  was  visited  at 
her  home  by  Sir  Alexander  E.  Simpson,  for  thirty-five  years 
professor  of  midwifery  and  diseases  of  women  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Edlnburg,  in  company  with  Drs.  O.  G.  Pfaff,  A. 
C.  Kimberlin  and  A.  W.  Bravton. 


IXTRODLCTJOX.  xix 

and  an  extract  from  a  paper  by  Dr.  Martin  B. 

Tinker,  in  the  Johns  Hopkins  Bulletin,  August, 
1901  —  the  latter  republished  in  the  Indiana 
Medical  Journal,  October,  1899  —  were  mainly 
instrumental  in  bringing  the  Bobbs  case  before 
the  medical  world. 

The  results  of  Dr.  Kemper's  work  and  ripe 
scholarship  as  embodied  in  these  sketches  have 
been  to  set  the  history  of  our  profession  in  Indi- 
ana forever  beyond  the  reach  of  moth  and  rust. 
Oblivion  cannot  claim  them;  they  cannot  be 
alienated.  But  the  soldiers  and  the  soldier-sur- 
geons of  the  Mexican  and  Civil  "Wars  —  those 
who  fell  in  the  days  of  strife,  and  those  who  sur- 
vived for  a  time,  and  with  whose  laurels  it  is 
fitting  to  place  not  only  the  wreath  but  the 
sword  —  have  been  forever  commemorated  by  Dr. 
Kemper.  For  to  his  lot  fell  the  duty  and  privi- 
lege of  serving  our  common  country  over  three 
years  in  the  Civil  War,  and  afterward  to  have 
been  for  over  fort3^-five  years  in  peaceful  practice. 

The  days  and  years  of  peace  are  not  ignoble, 
not  without  courage  and  honorable  victories.  The 
highest  aims  of  social  and  political  life  are  to 
'  secure  the  brotherhood  of  man,  the  unity  of 
nations,  and  the  peace  of  the  world.  To  these 
ends  our  profession  has  devoted  itself  in  both 
times  of  peace  and  times  of  war.  But  more  to  the 
soldier-physicians  than  to  the  others  who  have 
gone  beyond  the  sound  of  our  transient  voices, 
do  we  feel  that  it  was  given  to  uphold  the  ideals 
of  liberty  as  well  as  of  charity  and  healing, 
which  by  their  triumphs  have  united  in  the  bonds 
of  peace,  knowledge,  good  will,  common  friend- 


XX  INTRODUCTION. 

ship  and  prosperity  all  the  sections  of  our  coun- 
try. These  he  has  honored,  as  is  just  and  fitting, 
with  special  mention  and  remembrance. 

Certainly  all  Indiana  physicians  will  be  inter- 
ested in  the  chapter  devoted  to  the  formation  and 
growth  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society  and 
Association  and  the  lists  of  its  early  members. 
A  chapter  on  medical  legislation  in  the  state,  the 
history  of  the  State  Health  Board,  the  record  of 
the  half-dozen  Indiana  ph^^sicians  who  served  in 
the  Mexican  War,  and  the  long  lists  of  those  who 
served  as  soldiers  or  surgeons  in  the  Civil  War, 
in  the  Spanish- American  War,  and  in  the  regular 
Army  and  ^avy,  are  features  which  will  add  to 
the  value  of  Dr.  Kemper's  work  as  the  years 
go  on. 

Dr.  Kemper  has  silently,  persistently  and 
almost  unconsciously  in  these  sketches  built  him- 
self a  monument  more  durable  than  tablets  of 
brass  or  kingly  pyramids  of  stone.  We  may  say 
in  words  of  the  fullest'  assurance  that  his  work 
reflects  accurately  the  whole  span  of  his  profes- 
sion in  the  best  half  century  of  medical  prooTess, 
and  that  as  a  simple  and  truthful  tale  of  his  own 
work  and  that  of  his  associates,  this  book  will 
often  be  referred  to  in  the  future.  Later  histo- 
rians of  our  Indiana  profession  will  find  in  these 
sketches  perennial  3^outh  and  freshness  and  a  uni- 
versal appeal.  They  have  local  color  and  are 
busied  with  local  concerns,  but  at  the  same  time 
reflect  so  many  of  the  great  features  of  medical 
progress  that  they  will  take  an  honored  place 
with  allied  books  in  the  history  of  our  profession. 
Gibbons'    "Decline    and    Fall    of    the    Eoman 


INTRODUCTION.  xxi 

Emj^ire"  was  characterized  by  Carlyle  in  a  chance 
remark  to  Emerson  as  a  splendid  bridge  from  the 
old  world  to  the  new.  And  so  these  sketches  of 
Dr.  Kemper's  may  be  regarded  as  a  section  of  the 
great  arch  which  unites  the  medicine  of  the  early 
fathers  witji  that  of  the  present  century. 

Alembkrt  W.  Braytox,  M.P. 


CONTENTS 


Chapter  I 
Introductory  to  the  Medical  History  of  Indiana,  p.  1. 

Chapter  II 
Early  Medical  History  of  Vincennes,  p.  4. 

Chapter  III 

Medicine  in  the  Northwestern  Territory;  A  Contribution 

to  the  Early  Medical  History  of  Indiana,  p.  18. 

Chapter  IV 
Early  Medical  History  of  Allen  County,  p.  24, 

Chapter  V 

Medical  Men  in  the  Early  Days  of  Indianapolis,  p.  31. 
Early  Medical  History  of  Eastern  Indiana,  p.  33. 

Chapter  VI 
Medical  Reminiscences  of  Madison,  p.  42,     Early  State 
Medical  Society,  p.  42.     Early  Surgery  of  Indiana, 
p,  45, 

Chapter  VII 

Early  State  Medical  Society,  p,  48.  Historical  Notes 
of  Indianapolis,  p.  50.  The  Medical  College  at 
Laporte,  p.  52. 

Chapter  VIII 

Early  Medical  History  of  Terre  Haute,  p.  56.  Proceed- 
ings of  the  First  Medical  District  Society  (Vincen- 
nes), p.  59.  Medical  Societies:  Copy  from  Original 
Proceedings  of  the  First  Medical  District  Society, 
p.  63,     False  Joint,  by  D.  L.  S.  Sliuler,  p.  66. 

Chapter  IX 

The  Central  Medical  College,  p.  69.  Bobbs  Free  Dis- 
pensary, p.  71.  Indianapolis  City  Hospital,  p.  71. 
Medical  Societies,  p.  73. 

Chapter  X 
Early  Medical  History  of  Rush  County,  p.  75.     Dr.  11. 
G.   Sexton,  p.   77,     Dr,  .J,   M,  Howland,  p.   80,     Dr, 
William   B.   Frame,   p,    82,     Fifth   Medical   District 
Society,  p.  84,     Dr.  W.  H.  Martin,  P.  87. 


xxiv  CONTENTS. 

Chapter  XI 

Early  Medical  History  of  Delaware  County,  p.  80. 
Reminiscences  of  Hancock  County,  p.  95.  Early 
Medical  History  of  Noble  County,  p.  97. 

Chapter  XII 
Pioneer  Physicians  of  Bartholomew  County,  p,  100. 

Chapter  XIII 

Early  Medical  Men  of  Fayette  County,  p.  113.  Early 
Medical  History  of  Grant  County,  p.  119.  Pioneer 
Physicians  of  Clay  County,  p.   124. 

Chapter  XIV 

Early  Physicians  of  Franklin  County,  p.  126.  Medical 
Men  of  Ripley  County,  p.  129.  Kosciusko  County, 
p.  130.  White  County  Medical  Society,  p.  131. 
Older  Physicians  of  Steuben  County,  p.  132. 

Chapter  XV 

Early  Medical  History  of  Fountain  County,  p.  133. 
Early  Physicians  of  Jackson  County,  p.  138. 

Chapter  XVI 

Formation  and  Growth  of  Our  Present  State  Medical 
Association,  p.  142.  List  of  Membership  from  For- 
mation to  the  Year  1860,  p.  152. 

Chapter  XVII 

Epidemics,  p.  161.  Legal  Enactments,  p.  166.  Recent 
Legislation,  p.  168.  Law  of  1897.  p.  171.  Law  of 
1909,  p.  172.  The  State  Board  of  Health,  p.  173. 
Sessions  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society  and 
Association,  p.  174.  Changes  in  the  State  Society, 
p.   175. 

Chapter  XVIII 

List  of  Presidents  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society 
and  Association,  p.  176.  Vice-Presidents  of  the 
Indiana  State  Medical  Society  and  Association,  p. 
178.  Corrected  List  of  Physicians  Present  at  the 
Medical  Convention  Held  at  Indianapolis,  June  6, 
1849,  p.  181. 


CONTENTS.  XXV 

Chapter  XIX 

War  History.  Indiana  Physicians  in  the  Mexican  War, 
p.  185.  Alpliabetica]  List  of  Surgeons  and  Assis- 
tant Surgeons  Who  Served  in  Indiana  Regiments 
During  the  Civil  War,  p.  187.  Medical  Officers 
from  Indiana  Commissioned  by  the  President — Vol- 
unteers, p.  203.  Regular  Army.  Volunteer  Xavy— 
Acting  Assistant  Surgeons  (Civil  War),  p.  204. 
Spanish-American  War,  p.  204.  List  of  Surgeons 
Appointed  by  the  President  in  the  Volunteer  Army 
of  the  United  States,  p.  204.  Hospital  Stewards, 
p.  204. 

Chapter  XX 

Medical  History  of  Madison  County,  p.  207.  Some  of 
the  Early  Practitioners  of  Gibson  County,  p.  225. 
Supplemental  to  Phvsicians  of  Jackson  County,  p. 
227. 

Chapter  XXI 

Alphabetical  List  of  Deceased  Physicians,  p.  230. 

Chapter  XXII 

Historical  Notes  and  References,  p.  257. 
Index,  p.  367. 


LIST    OF    ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Bobbs,  Johns  S 241 

Boor,  William   F 243 

Boyd,  Samuel  S 245 

Bray,  Madison  J facing  page  246 

Brayton,  Alembert   W xi 

Burnsworth,  Mrs.  Z 365 

Cook,   Ward 214. 

Eastman,    Joseph 265 

Fletcher,  William  B facing  page  271 

Florer,  Thomas  W 272 

Gaston,  John  M 275 

Harvey,  Thomas  B 280 

Hibberd,  James  F 285 

Jameson,  Patrick  H 290 

Kemper,    General   W.   H Frontispiece 

Layman,  Daniel  W 298 

Lomax,   William facing  page  300 

Marsee,  Joseph  W 307 

Mears,  George  W 309 

Miller,  Abram  0 312 

Moodey,  John  W facing  page  313 

Munford,  Samuel  E 318 

Myers,  William  H 320 

Parvin,  Theophilus   325 

Read,  Ezra    331 

Richmond,  John  L facing  page  334 

Rosenthal,   Isaac   M 337 

Ryan,    Townsend 221 

Sexton,  Marshall facing  page  340 

Sutton,  George    346 

Todd,  Robert  N 350 

Walker  George  B facing  page  351 

Wishard,  William  H facing  page  184 

Woodworth,  Benjamin  S 358 

Certificate  Issued  in  1832 168 

Diploma  Granted  Dr.  John  Rea 329 

Wesley    Chapel 143 


CHAPTER  I. 


IntPvOductory   to   the   Medical   History   of 
Indian'a. 

It  was  with  some  misgiving  that  I  consented 
to  write  a  series  of  articles  upon  the  above- 
named  subject.  So  much  time,  research  and  care 
is  required  that  I  hesitated.  However,  I  have 
made  the  attempt  and  will  try  to  produce  arti- 
cles that  contain  historical  facts  and  reminis- 
cences of  interest,  and  yet  I  am  conscious  that  I 
may  make  some  mistakes  and  many  omissions.  I 
make  no  claim  to  perfection. 

I  feel  justified  in  reproducing  extended  ex- 
tracts from  some  of  the  earlier  volumes  of  the 
Transactions  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  So- 
ciety. I  think  this  is  advisable,  for  the  reason 
that  the  papers  were  contributed  more  than  one- 
third  of  a  century  ago,  few  copies  of  the  Trans- 
actions are  extant  and  these  not  easy  of  access, 
and,  further,  that  the  information  there  im- 
parted is  valuable  and  should  be  reproduced  for 
younger  medical  men  of  the  present  day.  I 
have  the  only  file  of  these  papers  in  Delaware 
County,  and  I  suspect  that  a  search  of  the  vari- 
ous counties  in  the  state  will  show  but  few 
copies.  This  is  my  apology  for  reproducing  in 
part  these  interesting  and  valuable  contributions. 

I  shall  only  mention  in  detail  the  work  of 
members  of  our  profession  who  have  passed  away. 


2  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    nWIANA. 

Their  work  is  completed^  and  3^et  I  must  necessa- 
rily be  brief  in  all  that  I  may  say  concerning  in- 
dividuals and  what  they  accomplished. 

The  profession  of  this  state,  and  indeed  the 
entire  country,  owes  a  vast  debt  of  gratitude  to 
the  men  who  have  so  efficiently  conducted  our 
Indiana  medical  journals,  wherein  is  recorded  so 
much  of  our  medical  history.  Dr.  Parvin  was 
our  pioneer  in  medical  journalism — starting  the 
Western  Journal  of  Medicine  in  1866.  Four 
3'ears  later  this  journal  was  succeeded  by  the 
Indiana  Journal  of  Medicine,  and  in  1882  it  was 
named  Indiana  Medical  Journal.  It  continued 
under  that  name  to  December,  1908.  Dr.  A.  W. 
Brayton  especially  deserves  praise  for  the  labor 
and  time  he  has  given  to  the  Indiana  Medical. 
Journal.  I  have  consulted  files  of  this  journal 
from  its  beginning  to  the  present  time  and  have 
been  impressed  with  the  vast  amount  of  histori- 
cal matter  he  has  furnished  the  profession  of  this 
state.  Dr.  Frank  C.  Ferguson  also  was  an  effi- 
cient editor  in  the  early  days  of  medical  journal- 
ism. Dr.  S.  E.  Earp,  in  a  shorter  period  of  time, 
has  rendered  good  service  in  The  Monitor.  Our 
venerable  friend,  W.  H.  Wishard,  with  his  won- 
derful memory  of  nearly  three-quarters  of  a  cen- 
tury, and  a  pen  that  records  so  interestingly,  has 
given  us  a  vast  fund  of  information  in  journals 
and  State  Transactions.  Dr.  K.  French  Stone, 
in  his  work,  "Biography  of  Eminent  American 
Physicians  and  Surgeons,"  has  done  justice  to 
Indiana  physicians.  Good  work  in  furnishing 
facts  of  medical  history  has  been   rendered  by 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  3 

numerous  other  physicians,  but  I  can  not  men- 
tion all  at  this  time. 

Much  of  the  very  early  medical  history  of 
Indiana  is  found  in  an  article  by  Alfred  Patton, 
M.D.  (Transactions  of  the  Indiana  State  Medi- 
cal Society,  1874),  entitled  "The  Medical  His- 
tory of  Vincennes,"  which  is  worthy  of  reproduc- 
tion. 

Note. — The  first  issue  of  TJie  Medical  and  Surgical 
Monitor  was  in  June,  1898,  with  Dr.  S.  E.  Earp,  editor. 
The  Central  States  Medical  Magazine,  published  at 
Anderson,  with  Dr.  S.  C.  Xorris,  managing  editor, 
merged  with  The  Medical  and  Surgical  Monitor, 
November,  1905;  and  the  union  of  the  journals  took 
the  name  of  the  Central  States  Medical  Monitor,  with 
Dr.  S.  E.  Earp,  editor,  and  Drs.  S.  C.  Norris  and  S.  P. 
Scherer,  associate  editors.  January,  1909,  The  Indiana 
Medical  Journal,  edited  by  Dr.  A.  W.  Brayton,  merged 
with  The  Central  States  Medical  Monitor,  and  the 
name  was  changed  to  The  Indianapolis  Medical  Jour- 
nal, with  Dr.  S.  E.  Earp,  editor-in-chief,  Dr.  A.  W. 
Brayton,  editor,  and  Drs.  S.  P.  Scherer  and  S.  C.  Nor- 
ris, associate  editors. 

On  Feb.  15,  1909,  the  name  was  changed  to  Indian- 
apolis Medical  Journal,  continuing  the  order  of  num- 
ber—Vol.  XII.— G.  W.  H.  K. 


CHAPTEE  II. 


Early  Medical  History  of  Yincei^ees. 

"It  is  supposed  that  Vincennes  was  settled  by 
the  French,  from  Canada,  in  1710  or  1711,  and 
that  a  priest,  Father  Mermet,  was  stationed  here 
soon  after  that  time.  The  place  was  called  ^Au 
Post  du  Onabadee,'  w^hich  has  since  been  cor- 
rapied  into  the  Old  Post.  In  1732  Francois 
Morgan  de  Yinsenne  was  made  commandant  of 
the  post,  and  the  place  was  then  called  St.  Yin- 
cennes.  I  have  carefully  read  everything  in  his- 
tory relating  to  this  ancient  city,  and  do  not  find 
the  name  of  a  single  physician  referred  to,  and 
only  twice  do  I  find  any  mention  of  diseases.  An 
epidemic  prevailed  here  soon  after  Father  Mer- 
met came  to  the  place,  which  took  off  more  than 
half  of  the  inhabitants.  The  medicine  man  of 
the  Indian  tribes,  in  vain,  invoked  the  aid  of  the 
great  Manitou  for  the  relief  of  the  sick,  but,  as 
might  have  been  expected,  superstition  and  ri- 
diculous incantation  failed  to  arrest  the  progress 
of  that  terrible  disease,  smallpox.  History  in- 
forms us  that  the  same  disease  prevailed  here  in 
1793;  about  seventy-five  deaths  then  occurred. 

"The  first  physician  who  practiced  medicine  in 
this  place,  so  far  as  we  are  informed,  either  from 
records  or  the  old  citizens,  was  Dr.  Elijah  Tis- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  5 

dale,  who  located  here  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
year  1792,  where  he  died.  He  was  an  assistant 
surgeon  in  the  United  States  army.  Hon. 
Charles  B.  Lnsdle  has  in  his  possession  the  origi- 
nal commissions,  signed  hy  George  Washington, 
President  of  the  United  States,  and  dated  at 
Philadelphia,  March  4,  1791.  Mrs.  E.  H.  Domo- 
non  has  a  copy,  which  I  have  seen.  By  an  ex- 
amination of  the  Army  Register  of  the  Medical 
Department,  I  find  that  he  was  assigned  to  duty 
with  the  Second  Regiment,  U.  S.  Infantry.  From 
old  papers  and  letters  which  belonged  to  Dr. 
Tisdale,  some  of  which  were  written  by  him,  I 
learn  that  he  came  to  this  place  with  the  regi- 
ment in  1792,  and  resigned  his  office  in  1796.  I 
am  unable  to  procure  any  information  as  to  his 
medical  education,  but  from  his  having  received 
the  appointment  of  army  surgeon,  and  as  there 
was  then  a  board  of  four  examiners,  as  now,  it  is 
to  be  supposed  that  he  was  a  well-informed  phy- 
sician. An  additional  evidence  in  favor  of  this 
supposition  is  the  character  of  the  medical  books 
he  relied  on.  Though  I  have  not  been  able  to 
find  anv  of  his  books,  I  learn  from  one  of  his 
letters  that  he  owned  Cullen's  Practice  of  Medi- 
cine, Avhich  he  obtained  in  1795,  Bell's  Surgery, 
and  Hamilton's  Obstetrics.  These  were  standard 
works  at  that  early  day ;  indeed,  but  few  Ameri- 
can physicians  then  owned  Cullen's  Practice,  as 
it  was  published  in  London  in  1789,  and  was  not 
republished  in  this  country  until  1806.  Then, 
guided  by  the  books  he  read,  and  the  manu- 
scripts he  left,  to  which  I  have  had  access,  I  will 


6  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    n  DIANA. 

be  enabled  to  commence  the  medical  history  of 
Yincennes,  with  his  location  here  in  1792.* 

"The  next  physician  who  made  Vincennes  his 
home  was  Dr.  Samuel  McKee,  Jr.,  who  was  also 
an  army  surgeon.  His  commission,  the  original 
of  which  is  before  me^  is  signed  by  Thomas  Jef- 
ferson, President  of  the  United  States,  and  dated 
April  27,  1802;  but  I  find  from  the  Medical 
Eegister  that  he  was  assigned  to  duty  here,  as 
garrison  assistant  surgeon,  in  March,  1802,  and 
from  the  same  source  I  ascertain  that  he  died 
here  Nov.  5,  1809.  His  son,  A.  B.  McKee,  who 
lives  on  a  farm  near  this  city,  has  kindly  fur- 
nished me  with  his  father's  old  medical  library, 
which  is  of  great  value  in  writing  this  history. 

"Dr.  McKee  was  educated  at  the  Trans3dvania 
University,  Lexington,  Ky.,  and  was  college 
librarian  for  a  considerable  time.  It  is  said  of 
him  that  he  read  every  book  in  the  library.  He 
v/as  a  Greek  and  Latin  scholar  and  well  read  in 
his  profession.  As  the  books  he  read  were  the 
same  as  those  relied  on  by  others  of  the  early 
physicians,  I  will  include  all  together  in  that 
branch  of  m}^  subject. 

"Dr.  Jacob  Key  Kendall  came  here  in  1805 
from  Virginia,  and  died  in  1833,  having  prac- 
ticed here  twenty-eight  years.  He  was  an  able 
and  popular  physician.  I  now  own  his  medical 
library. 

"Dr.  Elias  Mc^amee  came  here  in  1808  from 
Pennsylvania  and  died  in  1834.     His  daughter, 

*  According  to   the   "Historical   Register   and   Dictionary 
of  the  U.  S.  Army,"  by  Heitman.  Dr.  Elijah  Tisdale  was  a 
native    of    North    Carolina.       He    entered    the    service    as 
surgeon's   mate,   2nd  IT.   S.   Infantry,   March  4,   1791.      Ro 
signed  Dec.  31,  1797. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  7 

Mrs.  Woolverton,  resides  here  at  present.  Her 
husband  was  Dr.  J.  D.  Woolverton,  who  located 
here  in  1818  and  died  in  1834. 

"Dr.  Wm.  Carr  Lane  located  here  in  1812 ; 
removed  to  St.  Louis  in  1815,  where  he  attained 
wealth  and  distinction.  I  have  quite  a  number 
of  his  old  books. 

"Dr.  Alison  came  here  in  1817  and  died  in 
1820. 

"Dr.  L.  S.  Shuler  came  here  in  1818  and  died 
soon  after. 

"Dr.  E.  Skull  came  here  in  1811  and  left  in 
1813.  He  fought  a  duel  with  Mr.  Eannenis 
Becker,  which  resulted  in  the  death  of  Mr. 
Becker.  Dr.  Skull  left  suddenly.  He  was  an 
acting  surgeon  in  the  army,  but  his  name  does 
not  appear  in  the  Register.  I,  therefore,  sup- 
pose he  was  not  regularly  commissioned. 

"Dr.  Hiram  Decker  was  born  and  raised  in 
this  county,  and  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  this  town  in  1815;  died  in  1863,  having  been 
actively  engaged  in  the  practice  forty-eight 
years.  He  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  a  large 
circle  of  friends,  and  was  a  warm,  personal 
friend  of  General  Harrison,  who  appointed  him 
land  agent  for  this  district  when  he  became 
President  of  the  United  States.  I  have  his  en- 
tire medical  library. 

"Dr.  Joseph  Somes  came  here  in  1828  from 
England;  removed  to  Leavenworth,  Kans.,  in 
1872.  He  practiced  here  forty-four  years;  was 
a  well-educated  and  courteous  practitioner. 

"Dr.  W.  W.  Hitt  came  here  from  Baltimore 
in  1829;  practiced  until  1872,  and  retired  from 


8  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

practice  the  day  he  reached  his  fiftieth  year 
in  the  medical  service.  From  him  I  have  derived 
much  valuable  information  in  regard  to  the 
early  medical  history  of  Yincennes.  For  many 
years  of  his  early  practice  here  he  was  called  on 
to  visit  patients  fifty  and  sixty  miles  distant  * 
was  often  called  to  Mt.  Carmel,  Terre  Haute  and 
other  distant  points.  He  performed  an  impor- 
tant surgical  operation,  an  account  of  which  was 
given  in  the  Western  Journal  of  Medical  and 
Physical  Sciences,  in  1832,  article  2,  page  350, 
^History  of  a  Sarcomatous  Tumor — Its  Extirpa- 
tion/ published  by  request  of  the  Medical  Bu- 
reau of  the  First  Medical  District  of  Indiana. 
By  Washington  W.  Hitt,  M.D.,  of  Vincennes, 
Ind. :  ^The  tumor  measured,  in  its  largest  cir- 
cumference, thirty-two  inches,  and  its  base  twen- 
ty-two inches.  It  involved  the  left  mammary 
gland.  The  age  of  the  jDatient  was  24  years. 
She  is  still  living,  the  tumor  never  having  re- 
turned.' 

"Dr.  Hitt  was  a  member  of' the  constitutional 
convention  in  the  winter  of  1850  and  1851;  was 
elected  on  the  temperance  ticket.  He  long  en- 
joyed the  confidence  of  the  people  as  a  physician 
and  has  ever  been  held  in  high  esteem  as  a  citi- 
zen.   His  age  is  now  73. 

"Dr.  Davidson  came  here  in  1830;  died  in 
1833. 

"Dr.  J.  Browne,  in  1834,  and  died  in  1836. 

"Dr.  John  Baty  came  here  from  France  in 
1836;  left  here  in  1866;  is  now  living  at  Terre 
Haute,  and  is  physician  and  surgeon  to  the  Sis- 
ters' Hospital  at  that  city.    He  attained  distinc- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  9 

tion  here  as  a  physician,  and  especially  as  a  sur- 
geon. He  graduated  in  Paris,  France,  taking 
the  fourth  honor,  which  entitles  him  to  a  posi- 
tion in  the  Medical  School  of  Paris,  but  he  pre- 
fers to  practice  his  profession  in  free  America 
to  enjoying  the  high  honor  of  a  great  medical 
school  in  the  metropolis  of  France.  He  spent 
two  or  three  years  in  the  schools  and  hospitals  of 
Paris  during  and  since  the  Franco-Prussian  war. 
On  account  of  his  superior  attainments  in  medi- 
cine and  surgery,  his  learning  and  high  moral 
qualities,  I  think  he  deserves  a  special  notice  in 
this  report.  'While  here  he  performed  many  im- 
portant surgical  operations  and  enjoyed  the  full 
confidence  of  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances.    His  age  is  62. 

"Dr.  John  R.  Mantle  came  here  from  the 
State  of  New  York  in  1844;  is  still  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  medicine;  is  doing  a  remunera- 
tive practice  and  stands  high  professionally  and 
socially.  He  spent  some  time  in  New  York 
City,  last  year,  prosecuting  the  study  of  his  pro- 
fession in  the  hospitals,  giving  special  attention 
to  diseases  of  women  and  obstetrics.  His  age 
is  84. 

"Dr.  H.  M.  Smith  located  in  this  city  in 
1849;  is  a  native  of  Kentucky;  was  postmaster 
in  this  place  eight  years;  was  appointed  by 
President  Lincoln;  is  still  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice and  enjoys  the  confidence  of  many  of  our 
best  citizens.    He  is  53  years  of  age. 

"Dr.  R.  B.  Jessup  came  here  from  New  York 
State  in  1853;  is  still  engaged  in  the  practice; 
directs  special  attention  to  surgery,  in  which  he 


10  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OP    INDIANA. 

has  attained  a  well-merited  distinction.     He  was 
a  surgeon  in  the  civil  war. 

MEDICAL  SOCIETIES   OF   VINCENNES. 

"The  first  medical  society  organized  in  Vin- 
cennes  was  nnder  a  charter  granted  by  the  state 
legislature  in  the  year  1835.  This  society  had 
the  authority  to  give  diplomas  to  those  who  sub- 
mitted to  a  satisfactory  examination  by  a  board 
of  medical  censors,  which,  in  that  early  day,  was 
regarded  with  almost  as  much  favor  as  a  diploma 
from  a  medical  college.  The  meetings  of  the 
society  were  held  quarterly  and  were  attended  by 
physicians  from  this  and  adjoining  counties.  A 
copy  of  the  constitution  and  by-laws  accompany 
this  report.  Sections  19  and  20  are  worthy  of 
attention  and  are  herewith  transcribed : 

"  ^Sec.  19.  Physicians  should  never  neglect  an 
opportunity  of  fortifying  and  promoting  the  good 
resolutions  of  patients  suffering  under  the  bad 
eifects  of  intemperance  and  vicious  lives;  and, 
in  order  that  their  counsel  and  remonstrations 
may  have  due  weight,  it  will  readily  be  seen  that 
they  should  have  full  claim  to  be  blameless  in 
life  and  high  moral  character,  which  we  have 
stated  to  be  a  necessary  prerequisite  to  an  honor- 
able stand  in  the  profession.^ 

"  ^Sec.  30.  Medical  men  should  remember  the 
^Sabbath  day  and  keep  it  holy,'  and  visits  should, 
as  far  as  consistent  with  professional  engage- 
ments, be  made  before  or  after  public  worship, 
or  during  its  intervals.' 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  11 

"I  am  pleased  to  be  able  to  state  that  out  of 
the  entire  number  of  physicians  who  have  lived 
in  this  place,  or  who  are  here  now,  there  has 
not  been  an  inebriate,  and  nearly  all  have  been 
moral  men,  and  many  of  them  members  of 
churches.  The  physicians  here  at  present  are  all 
members  of  some  church,  with  one  or  two  excep- 
tions, and  not  one  of  them  that  does  not  dis- 
courage intemperance  both  by  precept  and  exam- 
ple. 

"The  next  medical  society  that  was  organized 
here  dates  in  December,  1863,  with  Dr.  W.  W. 
Hitt,  president,  and  Dr.  A.  Patton,  secretary. 
Its  meetings  were  held  monthly,  and  for  a  year 
or  two  they  were  well  attended  and  the  interest 
fully  maintained,  but  suddenly  they  were  dis- 
continued and  for  several  years  there  has  been 
no  meeting. 

THE    MEDICAL    DEPARTMENT    OF    THE    VINCENNES 
UNIVERSITY. 

"The  legislature  of  the  Territory  of  Indiana 
granted  a  charter  for  the  A'^incennes  University 
in  1807,  with  the  privilege  of  uniting  a  medical 
department  with  its  course  of  instruction;  also 
law  and  theological  departments.  The  school  of 
learning  is  still  in  existence,  having  received  an 
endowment  from  Congress,  but  the  medical  de- 
partment has  never  been  organized. 

FEE  BILLS. 

"I  have  before  me  one  of  Dr.  Tisdale's  bills, 
which  indicates  that  he  charged  for  a  visit  in 
town,  medicine  and  prescription,  $2.00;   'bleed- 


12  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

mg,  50  cents;  2  closes  jalap,  50  cents;  6  pills,  25 
cents;  4  pectoral  powders,  $1.00/  I  regret  that 
the  bill  does  not  include  a  greater  variety  of 
items. 

"Dr.  McKee's  charges  in  1805  were,  for  a 
visit  in  town,  $1.50,  medicines  additional;  ex- 
tracting teeth,  25  cents;  for  30  cathartic  pills  he 
charged  50  cents;  for  one  dose  of  calomel,  1  oz. 
paregoric  and  vial,  62y2  cents;  for  1  dose  calo- 
mel and  1  dose  tartar  emetic,  50  cents;  for  20 
mercurial  pills,  $1.50;  accouchement  cases,  nat- 
ural, $5.00.  I  derive  this  information  from  a 
bill  made  out  against  one  of  his  patients. 

"Doctors  Key  Kendall  and  Decker,  in  1820, 
charged  one  dollar  a  visit  in  town,  and  charged 
much  less  for  medicines  than  did  Drs.  McKee 
and  Tisdale,  the  price  of  drugs  having  greatly 
decreased. 

"In  1835  I  find  the  following  charges  as  being 
agreed  upon  by  the  physicians,  but,  as  they  are 
the  same  as  those  of  1838-48,  I  Avill  not  trans- 
cribe them.  I  find  one  difference  in  1835,  the 
charge  on  prescription,  with  written  advice,  was 
from  $5  to  $15. 

"In  1848  a  fee  bill  was  published  from  which 
1  extract  the  following:  Visit  in  town,  $1.00; 
with  unusual  detention,  $2.00;  prescriptions, 
with  letters  of  advice,  $5.00  to  $10.00;  consulta- 
tions, $3.00  to  $5.00;  night  visits  double;  vac- 
cination, 50  cents  to  $1.00 ;  venesection,  50 
cents;  simple  medicines,  per  dose,  25  cents;  mix- 
tures, 25  cents  per  fluid  oz. ;  blisters,  from  25  to 
50  cents;  accouchement,  $5.00  to  $10.00. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  13 

EMOLUMENTS. 

*'The  physicians  who  have  labored  so  faith- 
fully and  so  long  for  the  people  of  Yincennes 
may  have  gained  honors  and  the  grateful  re- 
membrance of  friends,  but  not  one  has  ever  ac- 
cumulated wealth ;  none  have  made  more  than  a 
living,  with  the  exception  of  three,  and  their 
fortunes,  amounting  to  only  a  few  thousand  dol- 
lars, were  the  result  of  careful  economizing,  for- 
tunate investments  and  small  families.  It  seems 
that  medicine,  though  an  honorable  profession, 
is  not  a  lucrative  one,  especially  in  small  towns 
or  the  country." 

PROGRESS   IN   PRACTICAL   MEDICINE. 

"To  determine  the  line  of  practice  pursued  by 
the  physicians  who  lived  here  at  an  early  period, 
the  only  means  at  my  command  are  the  medical 
books  I  find  in  their  libraries  and  the  few  notes 
in  manuscript  which  some  of  them  have  left  be- 
hind. I  can  not  ascertain  that  any  of  these  men 
had  a  line  published  indicating  their  views  of 
the  pathology  or  treatment  of  disease.  But  we 
can  always  safely  judge  men  by  the  kind  of  com- 
pany they  keep,  and  so  we  may  judge  our  old 
physicians  by  the  books  they  read.  If  Dr.  Tis- 
dale  was  guided  by  Sydenham,  as  he  no  doubt 
was,  until  1795,  when  he  came  into  possession  of 
Cullen's  First  Series  in  Medicine,  we  may  well 
conclude  that  his  remedies  were  few  and  simple. 
That  our  old  physicians  employed  the  same  for- 
mulas that  were  advised  by  Sydenham  is  not 
claimed,  for  we  know  that  many  of  their  reme- 
dies consisted  of  the  plants  and  roots  that  were 


14  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

indigenous  in  our  forests  or  were  grown  in  the 
gardens.  Medicines  that  were  manufactured 
only  in  England,  France  or  Germany,  at  that 
time,  were  very  scarce  and  expensive,  and  substi- 
tutes were  employed  when  possible.  As  a  tonic 
the  Peruvian  bark  had  become  popular,  much 
more  so  than  when  Sydenhiam  expressed  his 
doubts  about  its  safety,  and  advised  that  it 
should  never  be  used  until  the  system  was  pre- 
pared to  receive  it  by  bleeding,  purgatives  and 
emetics.  I  find,  however,  that  physicians  and 
people  relied  upon  such  tonic  medicines  as  they 
could  easily  obtain  from  the  forest;  one,  espe- 
cially, which  was  considered  a  most  wonderful 
remedy  in  many  forms  of  disease,  was  Fontany 
root,  which  is  a  species  of  gentian.  It  is'  still 
used  by  a  few  old  French  families. 

"Dr.  McKee  often  prescribed  the  sumach  ber- 
ries, to  be  infused  in  water,  as  a  cooling  drink  in 
fevers,  and  as  an  aperient  instead  of  cream  of 
tartar. 

"The  next  great  work  which  came  into  the 
hands  of  our  early  physicians  was  Dr.  Rush's 
Medical  Inquiries  and  Observations,  in  which  we 
find  the  dawnings  of  that  great  philosophy  in 
American  medicine  which  we  see  so  strikingly 
illustrated  in  the  practice  of  many  of  our  physi- 
cians of  the  present  day,  but  which  unfortu- 
nately did  not  obtain  with  some  of  our  great  wri- 
ters in  the  early  part  of  this  century. 

"Drs.  Tisdale  and  McKee  died  in  1807-9,  but 
Drs.  Key  Kendall  and  MclSTamee  were  here  then, 
and  in  1811-12  Drs.  Skull  and  Lane  came  to 
Vincennes,  but  neither  remained  long.    They  all 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF   INDIANA.  15 

followed  Cullen  and  Eush,  though  Dr.  Rush's 
works  were  not  here  until  1813.  The  next  au- 
thor that  I  find  is  Dr.  Thomas'  work  on  Practi- 
cal Medicine,  published  in  1817  in  London.  He 
was  never  a  popular  author  in  America;  was  con- 
sidered entirely  too  timid  and  temporizing  in  his 
practice.  Up  to  this  time  the  only  treatment 
employed  in  pneumonia  was  bleeding,  tartar 
emetic  and  calomel,  and  neither  Drs.  Tisdale, 
McKee,  McN'amee,  Key  Kendall,  Lane  or 
Decker  had  ever  heard  of  auscultation  as  a 
means  of  diagnosis  in  lung  and  heart  diseases. 
I  lind  the  work  of  Corvisart  on  the  Heart  in  this 
old  library,  but  he  never  dreamed  of  the  ad- 
vances that  were  to  be  made  in  our  knowledge  of 
cardiac  diseases.  In  pneumonia,  however,  the 
old  treatment  of  bleeding,  evacuants  and  such 
depressing  agents  as  tartar  emetic,  has  given 
place  to  one  that  is  more  rational  and  far  more 
successful.  There  is  not  a  physician  in  Vin- 
cennes,  so  far  as  I  am  informed,  that  pursues 
the  old  treatment  in  pneumonia. 

"In  that  period,  extending  from  1815  to  1830, 
it  is  evident  that  our  physicians  here  pursued 
the  line  of  treatment  that  then  prevailed  in 
Philadelphia,  Virginia,  Kentucky,  Tennessee 
and  Natchez,  Miss.  Among  the  old  books  are 
many  works,  monographs  and  articles  in  medical 
journals  on  fevers,  bowel  affections,  lung  dis- 
eases and  others  which  were  prevalent  in  this 
climate,  written  by  such  distinguished  men  as 
Eberle  and  Chapman,  of  Philadelphia;  John 
Esten  Cooke,  then  of  Virginia,  afterward  Louis- 


16  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

ville,  Ky. ;  Samuel  A.  Cartwright^  of  Natchez, 
and  others.  Dr.  Cartwright  probably  exercised 
more  influence  over  the  physicians  here,  as  he 
was  raised  in  this  state  not  more  than  twenty- 
five  miles  from  Yincennes.  He  was  an  able 
writer  and  was  well  calculated  to  please  those 
who  were  inclined  to  adopt  a  bold  and  active 
treatment,  as  most  western  and  southern  physi- 
cians were  at  that  time.  He  bled  freely,  but 
placed  his  greatest  reliance  upon  large  doses  of 
calomel.  From  20  to  100  grains  were  his  favor- 
ite doses,  and  he  claimed  that  the  medicine  was 
much  milder  in  its  action  when  given  in  large 
doses  than  in  small  ones.  His  formula  for  chol- 
era was  10  grains  each  of  calomel,  capsicum  and 
camphor  gum,  repeated  every  half-hour.  Dr. 
Hitt,  of  this  city,  informs  me  that  he  employed 
this  treatment  in  the  cholera  here.  His  treat- 
ment of  apoplexy  was  so  very  singular  that  I 
will  briefly  refer  to  it.  He  claimed  that  the 
immediate  cause  of  death  in  apoplexy  was  the 
accumulation  of  phlegm  in  the  air  passages,  in 
consequence  of  the  failure  of  the  pneumogastric 
and  phrenic  nerves  to  properly  stimulate  the 
respiratory  muscles,  and,  therefore,  the  patient 
died,  asphyxiated.  Bleeding,  he  contended,  only 
increased  the  difficulty,  and  he  relied  entirely  on 
what  he  termed  apophlegmatics,  which  consisted 
of  capsicum  10  grains,  mustard  10  grains,  com- 
mon salt  10  grains,  and  calomel  10  grains,  to  be 
crammed  down  the  patient^s  throat  with  a  cloth 
wrapped   around  a   stick,  to  be   repeated  until 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  17 

there  was  free  vomiting  and  purging.     In  old 
persons  I  have  seen  the  remedy  act  exceedingly 

Another  article  bearing  upon  the  very  early 
medical  history  of  Indiana  is  that  by  Hubbard 
M.  Smithy  M.D.,  Vincennes  (Transactions  of  the 
Indiana  State  Medical  Society,  1906),  which  is 
herewith  reproduced : 


CHAPTEE  III. 


Medicine  in  the  Northwestern  Territory: 

A  Contribution  to  the  Early  Medical 

History  of  Indiana. 

'^At  the  first  annual  meeting  of  tlie  Sec- 
ond District  Medical  Society  of  Indiana,  it 
occurred  to  'me  that  it  would  not  be  inappro- 
priate for  its  members  to  take  a  retrospect  of 
the  doings  of  oiir  coadjutors,  in  their  lines  of 
action,  about  a  century  ago. 

"The  first  medical  society  organized  in  the 
Northwestern  Territory,  wrested  from  the  Brit- 
ish government  by  Col.  George  Eogers  Clark  on 
Feb.  25,  1779,  occurred  in  Vincennes,  Ind.  The 
exact  date  is  not  positively  known,  but  I  know 
for  a  fact  that  its  origin  was  prior  to  the  year 
1818.  Goodspeed,  in  a  history  of  Knox  County, 
published  twenty  years  ago,  states  that,  *in 
1817,  the  physicians  of  this  place  met  and 
formed  a  medical  society.'  Presumably,  a  so- 
ciety was  then,  or  at  an  earlier  period,  formed, 
for  I  have  evidence,  obtained  from  a  newspaper 
published  in  this  town  in  1818,  in  a  call,  printed 
therein,  for  a  meeting  of  a  medical  society  in 
that  year,  and  my  recollection  is  that  Drs.  Din- 
widdle and  Truesdale  were  members.  No  known 
records  of  this  society  exist. 

"Another  society  was  organized  here  in  1827, 
and,  on  June  5,  elected  the  following  officers, 
viz.:    Drs.  E.  McNamee,  president;    J.  Kuyken- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  19 

dall,  treasurer,  and  H.  Decker,  secretary.  Pres- 
ent: Drs.  J.  D.  Wolverton,  J.  K.  O'Haver  and 
Philip  Barton.  This  society  bore  the  title,  The 
Medical  Society  of  the  First  Medical  District  of 
Indiana.' 

"It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  name  of  this  so- 
ciety was  almost  identical  with  our  new  district 
organization.  The  extent  of  territory  the  society 
embraced  I  know  not,  but  it  doubtless  was  as 
great  as  that  of  this  organization.  The  member- 
ship embraced  the  names  of  the  following  doc- 
tors, towit:  Philip  Barton,  G.  G.  Barton,  Joseph 
Brown,  G.  G.  Barry,  B.  J.  Batty,  Hiram  Decker, 
H.  Davidson,  ^Y.  Dinwiddle,  John  W.  Davis, 
James  P.  DeBruler,  A.  Elliott,  AYilliam  Fair- 
hurst,  W.  W.  Hitt,  Hezekiah  Holland,  E.  B. 
Jessup,  J.  Kuykendall,  Alexander  Leslie,  E.  Mc- 
Xamee,  Joseph  Maddox,  F.  M.  McJenkin,  N. 
Mears,  John  E.  Mantle,  Thomas  ^^esbit,  J.  K. 
O'Haver,  T.  F.  Offutt,  Joseph  Porter,  J.  W. 
Posey,  J.  W.  Pennington,  Joseph  Somers,  Daniel 
Stahl,  J.  S.  Sawyer,  0.  G.  Stuart,  G.  B.  Shu- 
mard,  Hubbard  Madison  Smith,  Thomas  B. 
Thompson,  J.  D.  Wolverton,  W.  C.  Warner  and 
Daniel  Dinwiddle. 

"By  a  reference  to  the  records  of  this  society 
some  interesting  facts  are  gleaned,  not  the  least 
important  of  which  is  that  of  the  existence  at 
that  time — 1827 — of  a  state  medical  organiza- 
tion. If  I  mistake  not,  the  state  medical  society, 
organized  in  1849,  is  supposed  to  have  been  the 
first  state  organization,  which  is  an  error.  To 
controvert  that  opinion,  I  herewith  quote  from 


20  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

the  Transactions  of  the  Yincennes  Medical  Dis- 
trict Society  the  following: 

"  ^This  society  proceeded  to  elect  delegates  of 
the  State  Medical  Society,  which  resulted  in  the 
election  of  Drs.  J.  D.  Wolverton,  for  three  years; 
Hiram  Decker,  for  two  years,  and  Philip  Barton, 
for  one  year. 

"  'Resolved^  That  this  society  do  allow  the  sum 
of  ten  dollars  to  the  delegate  or  delegates  an- 
nually to  the  state  medical  society/ 

"And,  in  1830,  a  like  sum  was  appropriated 
for  expenses  of  delegates.  These  records  estab- 
lish the  fact  that  a  state  medical  society  existed 
as  early  as  June  5,  1827,  and  perhaps  earlier, 
and  the  one  organized  in  1849  was  the  second 
state  society. 

"Goodspeed's  history  of  this  society  states  that 
there  was  no  standard  pharmacopeia  in  the 
United  States  at  that  time,  and  that  it  sent  a 
memorial  to  Congress  to  appoint  a  committee  of 
competent  physicians  to  compile  one.  This  dis- 
trict medical  society  continued  to  hold  meetings 
that  were  recorded  up  to  March  23,  1835,  and 
occasionally  meetings  occurred  as  late  as  1854, 
of  which  the  writer  is  cognizant,  as  he  became  a 
member  of  it  in  May,  1849,  and  knows  of  the 
admission  of  Dr.  George  B.  Shumard  in  June 
following,  and  Dr.  Eobert  B.  Jessup  in  Febru- 
ary, 1854,  as  the  treasurer's  book  shows;  yet  no 
records  are  known  to  exist  recording  the  doings 
at  the  meetings  subsequent  to  March,  1835.  It 
is  worthy  to  note  in  giving  the  medical  history, 
especially  concerning  the  physicians  of  this  med- 
ical district  and  town  of  Yincennes,  that  an  at- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  21 

tempt  was  made  to  establish  a  medical  school 
here  in  1S39.  The  charter  of  the  Vincennes 
University,  granted  b}^  the  Territorial  Legisla- 
tive General  Assembly,  gave  it  authority  to  es- 
tablish branches,  besides  literature,  those  of  the- 
ology, law  and  medicine;  and,  although  I  find 
no  record  in  the  transactions  of  the  University 
Board  of  Trustees,  in  a  petition  recorded  there, 
from  the  physicians  asking  for  the  use  of  a  part 
of  its  building,  in  which  to  teach  medicine  and 
its  branches.  The  right  to  the  ownership  of  the 
building  being  in  controversy  between  the  uni- 
versity and  the  State  of  Indiana,  the  petition 
was  not  granted,  and  the  project  fell  through, 
and  no  further  record  of  it  exists. 

"In  looking  over  records  of  this  society,  I  find 
little  in  them  worthy  of  note.  With  the  excep- 
tion of  one  paper  presented  by  Dr.  W.  "W.  Hitt, 
which  was  ordered  to  be  forwarded  to  the  Medi- 
cal and  Physical  Journal,  edited  by  Dr.  Drake, 
at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  to  the  Transylvania 
Medical  Journal,  Lexington,  Ky.,  for  publica- 
tion, there  is  little  more  than  routine  meetings 
recorded,  embracing  the  elections  of  officers, 
granting  diplomas,  at  $5.00,  and  a  good  deal 
about  contributions,  by-laws  and  medical  ethics. 
Why  the  transactions  were  not  recorded  after 
March,  1835,  is  a  matter  of  conjecture.  As  a 
matter  of  fact  I  know  personally  that  members 
were  received  into  the  society  as  late  as  February, 
1854,  the  members  being  the  writer,  in  May, 
1849;  Dr.  G.  B.  Shumard,  June,  1849,  and  Dr. 
llobert  B.  Jessup,  February,  1854. 


22  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

"This  district  society  having  ceased  to  have  a 
vital  existence^  a  call  was  issued  for  a  meeting, 
at  the  city  hall,  of  the  physicians  of  Knox  Coun- 
t}^,  June  24,  1875,  when  the  'Knox  County  Med- 
ical Society'  was  organized,  the  following  named 
physicians  being  present :  F.  W.  Beard,  A.  J. 
Thomas,  James  F.  Origan,  Hubbard  M.  Smith, 
J.  W.  Pugh,  W.  W.  Hitt,  W.  H.  Wise,  W.  B. 
Sprinkle,  O'Connel  Fairhurst,  J.  N.  Merritt,  A. 
J.  Haughton,  Alfred  Reel,  John  C.  Beever,  John 

E.  Mantel,  AY.  B.  Harris,  and  M.  Witherspoon. 
"This  society  became  affiliated  with  the  state 

medical  society,  and  maintained  its  organization 
until  it  was  adopted  by  the  new  state  organiza- 
tion. 

"On  Oct.  26,  1875,  a  new  medical  society  was 
organized  in  this  city,  composed  of  physicians 
of  the  States  of  Hlinois,  Kentucky  and  Indiana, 
under  the  title  of  the  Tri-State  Medical  Society. 
The  organization  elected  the  following  officers: 
Drs.  Joseph  Thompson,  Kentucky,  president;  W. 
A.  Smith,  Illinois,  J.  K.  Letcher,  Kentucky,  and 
J.  B.  Armstrong,  Indiana,  vice-presidents;  Geo. 
W.    Burton,    Indiana,    corresponding    secretary; 

F.  W.  Beard,  Indiana,  secretary,  and  Alfred  Pat- 
ton,  Indiana,  treasurer.  Other  attending  mem- 
bers were :  Drs.  John  R.  Mantel,  Hubbard  Mad- 
ison Smith,  Willis  W.  Hitt,  John  C.  Beever, 
William  H.  Beeson,  Robert  B.  Jessup,  Yin- 
cennes;  J.  S.  Dukate,  'Wheatland;.John  T.  Free- 
land,  Freelandsville,  and  Martin  Witherspoon, 
Bruceville.  These  three  states  comprised  origi- 
nally the  scope  of  the  society,  but  it  permitted 
physicians  of  other  states  to  join  it,  and  in  a  few 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  23 

years  its  numbers  had  so  increased,  and  become 
so  cosmopolitan  in  character,  that  it  lost  its  iden- 
tity, and  assumed  that  of  Mississippi  Valley 
Medical  Association.  After  meeting  a  few  times 
in  the  states  it  originally  comprised,  it  met  in  St. 
Louis,  and  thereafter  in  many  distant  states, 
and  the  new  organization  soon  rivaled  in  mem- 
bership and  power,  almost,  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association. 

"About  eight  years  ago  another  district  medi- 
cal society  was  organized,  which  was  composed 
of  physicians  of  the  counties  of  Knox,  Daviess, 
Pike  and  Gibson,  but  it  has  been  superseded  by 
this,  the  Second  Congressional  District  Medical 
Society. 

"The  foregoing  may  be  considered  as  prosy 
matter,  but,  as  it  embraces  concise  early  infor- 
mation as  to  the  time  of  the  formation  of  the 
first  medical  society  of  the  northwest,  and  the 
names  of  some  of  its  members,  and  the  medical 
organization  following,  to  the  present  time,  es- 
pecially as  it  relates  to  societies  in  county  and 
district;  yet  I  give  it  as  a  matter  of  medical 
history  for  the  present,  as  well  as  for  those  doc- 
tors who  will  take  our  places  in  the  coming  years 
that  it  may  be  a  matter  of  record  ere  time  rele- 
gates the  facts  embraced  herein  to  the  vale  of 
oblivion." 


CHAPTEE  lY 


Eaely  Medical  History  of  Alle^t  County. 

Some  of  the  early  medical  history  of  north- 
eastern Indiana  is  given  in  an  article  by  H.  P. 
Ayers,  M.D.,  of  Fort  Wayne  (Transactions  of 
the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society,  1874),  enti- 
tled, "The  Medical  History  of  Allen  County." 
The  article  is  deemed  worthy  of  reproduction  in 
its  entirety: 

^'The  first  white  doctors  who  visited  the  site  of 
Allen  County  were  connected  with  the  soldiers, 
traders  and  missionaries  in  the  early  part  of  the 
last  century,  but  their  names  have  not  descended 
to  the  present  generation.  The  first  whose  name 
is  now  known,  was  Dr.  Curtis,  who  visited  Fort 
AYa}Tie  in  1810,  but  was  as  much  an  Indian 
trader  as  a  physician. 

"The  same  vear  Dr.  Turner,  who  was  con- 
nected  with  the  United  States  Army,  visited  this 
place,  and  remained  about  one  year. 

"Dr.  Benezet,  who  was  connected  with  the 
army,  came  in  1811. 

"In  1812  Dr.  Crow,  with  Dr.  Yorees,  United 
States  Army  surgeon,  reported  for  duty  at  this 
place.  He  accompanied  a  party  of  twelve  men 
some  miles  north,  where  they  were  attacked  by 
Indians,  and  all  killed  but  the  doctor,  who 
proved  too  fleet  for  his  red  pursuers. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  25 

"In  1815  Dr.  Treat,  who  was  also  attached  to 
the  United  States  Army,  relieved  the  former 
surgeon.  He  was,  as  I  have  learned  from  some 
of  our  oldest  citizens,  a  most  excellent  man  and 
physician,  and  by  his  urbanity  and  kindness  en- 
deared himself  to  all  who  knew  him.  He  was 
ordered  to  Savannah,  where  he  died,  much  re- 
gretted by  all. 

"Dr.  Smith,  a  volunteer  surgeon,  visited  Fort 
Wayne  in  1817  with  a  rifle  company.  He  was 
from  Lancaster,  Ohio,  and  remained  till  1818. 

"In  1818  Dr.  Uphane,  from  Canada,  located 
in  Fort  Wayne,  but  only  lived  a  short  time,  and 
was  buried  here. 

"In  1818  or  1819  Dr.  Benjamin  Cushman 
moved  to  this  place,  and  commenced  the  regular 
practice  of  medicine,  and  may  properly  be  con- 
sidered the  first  resident  physician.  Dr.  Cush- 
man has  left  a  good  reputation  as  a  practitioner 
of  medicine.  He  came  from  Eichmond,  Ind., 
but  of  his  previous  history  I  have  not  been  able 
to  learn  anything.    He  died  about  1839. 

"Dr.  L.  G.  Thompson  was  bom  in  Mercer 
County,  Kentucky,  in  1803,  and  moved  to  Fort 
Wayne  in  1825.  He  graduated  in  Ohio  Medical 
College  in  1837  and  died  in  1845.  Dr.  Thomp- 
son was  the  second  resident  pioneer  physician  in 
Fort  Wayne,  and  commenced  his  practice  about 
1821.  He  proved  himself  to  be  an  able  and  skil- 
ful man,  and  has  many  friends  yet  living  who 
bear  the  most  ample  testimony  to  the  assertion. 
His  excellence  of  character  did  not  consist  alone 
in  his  medical  abilities,  but  as  a  friend,  a  neigh- 
bor and  citizen.    He  had  few  superiors.    To  the 


26  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

poor  he  was  always  kind.  Dr.  Thompson  may 
be  ranked  among  the  best  in  his  profession  and 
as  a  valuable  citizen  in  all  the  departments  of 
society.  His  name  will  ever  be  associated  with 
the  early  history  of  our  city. 

*^In  1834  Dr.  Lewis  Beecher,  a  graduate  of 
Fairfield  Medical  School,  New  York,  located  in 
Fort  Wayne.  Dr.  Beecher  was  a  man  of  fine 
abilities,  and  soon  entered  an  extensive  and  valu- 
able practice  in  medicine  and  surgery.  He  con- 
tinued in  his  profession  until  1841,  when  he 
abandoned  it  and  engaged  in  the  sale  of  drugs 
and  medicines  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
in  1849. 

"Dr.  P.  G.  Jones  commenced  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  our  city  in  1834,  and  died  in  1853 
from  dissipation.  Dr.  Jones  was  a  graduate  of 
Maryland  University,  in  Baltimore,  Md.  He  was 
a  volunteer  surgeon  during  the  Mexican  war  and 
served  faithfully  until  its  close.*  He  possessed  a 
mind  of  more  than  ordinary  ability  and  was  a 
close  observer  of  men  and  things.  He  abandoned 
the  practice  several  years  before  his  death. 

"In  1842  Dr.  Bernard  Sevenick  emigrated 
from  Prussia  and  made  Fort  Wayne  his  home. 
He  had  been  a  surgeon  in  Bonaparte's  army  and 
served  during  several  campaigns  under  that  great 
commander,  and  continued,  during  life,  to  main- 
tain a  martial  bearing  in  all  he  did.  He  was 
gentlemanly  and  polite  in  all  his  intercourse  and 
took  great  pleasure  in  maintaining  the  dignity 
of  his  profession.     He  died  in  1849. 


*  Assistant  Surgeon,  Fifth  Indiana  Volunteer  Regiment. 
— G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  27 

"JDr.  B.  C.  Eowan  settled  in  Fort  'Wayne  in 
1S42.  He  was  born  in  Westmoreland  County, 
Pennsylvania,  1817,  and  died  in  Fort  Wayne  in 
1862.  Dr.  Rowan  -graduated  at  the  University 
of  New  York  in  1847.  In  1862  he  entered  the 
Army  of  the  Cumberland.  During  the  evacua- 
tion of  Corinth  he  contracted  disease,  which 
caused  his  death  soon  after.  He  was  esteemed 
and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  Frank, 
unobtrusive  and  honorable,  he  was  rapidly  gain- 
ing a  high  position  as  a  physician  and  man.  He 
left  many  who  yet  regret  his  death  and  feel  that 
he  was  too  early  cut  down. 

"Dr.  Banks  was  bom  in  Cincinnati  Ohio; 
graduated  at  Louisville  Medical  College,  Louis- 
ville, Ivy.;  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine 
at  Fort  Wayne,  1844.  He  continued  here  four 
years,  when  ill  health  compelled  him  to  retire 
from  the  hard  labor  of  riding.  During  1849  and 
1850  he  resided  in  Cincinnati,  where  he  died. 
Dr.  Banks  was  an  active,  energetic  man,  and  his 
prospects  of  success  were  flattering,  but  disease 
too  soon  seized  him,  and  death  too  soon  cut  him 

"Dr.  J.  Dailey  graduated  at  Jefferson  College, 
Philadelphia,  and  settled  in  this  city  in  1846, 
where  he  died  in  1864.  Dr.  Dailey  had  all  the 
mental  ability  for  high  attainments,  but  sacri- 
ficed all  to  intemperance. 

"Dr.  H.  J.  Weihmer  was  born  in  Hanover, 
Germany,  in  1799 ;  graduated  in  Berlin,  Prussia, 
in  1827 ;  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in 
1838 ;  became  a  resident  of  Fort  Wayne  in  1847, 
and  died  in  1859.    Dr.  Weihmer  was  gentleman- 


28  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

ly  and  affable  in  all  his  intercourse  with  others, 
and  had  many  warm  and  admiring  friends.  He 
was  a  successful  and  careful  practitioner  of  med- 
icine, and  has  left  a  large  circle  of  admirers  who 
yet  speak  of  his  worth. 

"This  completes  the  sketch  of  white  physicians 
so  far  as  we  can  ascertain,  but  we  think  it  would 
be  an  unfinished  task  did  we  omit  all  reference 
to  Indian  doctors. 

"Dr.  Buck-on-ga-helas  was  largely  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  Fort  Wayne  in  1804. 
He  was  physician  and  surgeon  to  Little  Turtle, 
the  great  commander  of  the  Miami  tribe  of  In- 
dians. He  acquired  a  great  reputation  in  the 
cure  of  bites  by  poisonous  snakes,  but  more  par- 
ticularly from  poisoned  arrows  then  used  among 
the  Indians.  His  practice,  however,  was  not 
confined  to  the  Indians,  but  was  quite  extensive 
among  the  white  inhabitants. 

"In  1807  an  Indian  named  Ma-te-a  acquired 
some  celebrity  as  a  doctor,  and  was  employed  by 
many  of  the  French  settlers  in  preference  to  any 
other.  It  may  be  interesting  to  many  to  refer 
briefly  to  some  of  the  appliances  of  the  Indian 
doctor  in  the  treatment  of  disease. 

"The  Indian  doctors  to  whom  I  have  referred 
were  sharp,  shrewd  Indians  and  well  acquainted 
with  all  the  resources  of  the  materia  medica. 
Some  physicians  remember  the  days  of  doctors' 
saddle-bags,  and  perhaps  some  are  yet  compelled 
to  use  them.  The  Indian's  medicine  bag  was 
made  up  in  the  same  way  ladies  now  make  their 
needle  cases.  Several  pockets  of  leather  were 
fastened  by  thongs  to  a  long  strip  of  buckskin 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  29 

six  or  eight  inches  wide  and  the  length  accord- 
ing to  the  wishes  of  the  doctor;  each  pocket  was 
closed  by  strings  on  the  top  of  the  pocket.  Each 
pocket  was  filled  with  certain  roots,  herbs, 
charms,  according  to  the  extent  of  the  doctor's 
knowledge,  and  then  hung  over  the  right  breast; 
or,  when  he  traveled,  it  was  folded  up  and  car- 
ried as  a  large  roll.  Army  surgeons,  under  civ- 
ilized regulations,  examine  the  mental  and  physi- 
cal fitness  for  military  service,  but  under  Indian 
regulations  the  surgeon's  duty  was  to  prepare 
the  young  warrior  for  duty  by  a  spiritual  prepa- 
ration and  also  furnish  him  with  a  war  medi- 
cine. The  former  was  accomplished  by  sweat- 
ing, bathing  and  eating  bitter  herbs  and  roots; 
the  latter  by  the  physician  placing  in  the  young 
warrior's  shot-pouch  a  Svar  physic'  or  Var  medi- 
cine,' which  was  to  protect  him  against  all  the 
accidents  and  ills  of  warfare.  The  prescription 
was  bones  of  a  snake  and  wild  cat;  the  modus 
operandi,  or  rationale  of  the  charm,  I  need  not 
give.  But  to  our  subject  more  particularly.  In- 
dian doctors  possessed  a  considerable  knowledge 
of  the  medicinal  virtues  of  plants  and  their  ap- 
plicability to  the  poisons  of  reptiles,  poisonous 
arrows,  and  the  diseases  incidental  to  savage 
life.  But  many  of  their  efforts  consisted  only 
in  incantations  and  juggleries.  The  doctor  would 
usually  dress  and  paint  himself  in  the  most 
grotesque  and  frightful  form,  and  then  with  a 
great  variety  of  contortions  of  the  body  approach 
ills  patient.  He  would  breathe  on  him,  blow  in 
his  face,  squirt  medicine  in  his  mouth  and  nose ; 
rattle  beans  or  pebbles  in  a  dry  gourd  over  him. 


30  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

at  the  same  time  keeping  up  the  most  horrid 
gesticulations  and  noises  to  frighten  away  the 
disease.  After  thus  maldng  his  professional 
visits  he  would  retire  to  await  the  result  of  his 
eif ort.  One  peculiarity  more :  The  Indian  doc- 
tor would  sometimes,  after  compounding  his  po- 
tion, drink  it  that  he  might  thus  cure  his  patient, 
a  custom  which,  we  think,  would  be  highly  re- 
pugnant to  civilized  doctors.  I  can  not  perhaps 
close  this  outline  of  the  medical  history  of  this 
section  of  the  State  of  Indiana  better  than  by 
quoting  a  few  lines  from  ^Hiawatha' : 

"  ^Then  the  medicine-men ;  the  Medas, 
The  magicians,  the  Wabenos, 
And  the  Tossakuds,  the  prophets. 
Came  to  visit  Hiaw^atha; 
Built  a  Sacred  Lodge  beside  him, 
To  appease  him,  to  console  him, 
AYalked  in  silent,  grave  procession, 
Bearing  each  a  pouch  of  healing, 
Skin  of  beaver,  lynx,  or  otter, 
Filled  with  magic  roots  and  simples. 
Filled  with  very  potent  medicines — 
Then  a  magic  drink  they  gave  him.' " 


CHAPTER  V. 


Medical  Men  in  the  Eaely  Days  of  Indiax- 
APOLis. — Early  Medical  History  of 

EaSTERX     IXDIAXA. 

Dr.  AV.  H.  Wishard  read  before  the  Marion 
County  Medical  Society,  Dec.  6,  1892,  a  paper 
on  the  above  subject,  published  in  The  Indiana 
Medical  Journal,  vol.  xi,  page  199,  from  which 
extracts  are  made.*  His  paper  comprises  the 
first  fifteen  years  of  history,  1821  to  1836. 

^T)r.  Samuel  G.  Mitchell,  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky, located  in  Indianapolis  in  April,  1821. 
He  was  the  first  physician  to  locate  in  our  capi- 
tal city.  He  was  a  licensed  practitioner  and  had 
never  attended  lectures. 

"Dr.  Isaac  Coe  was  the  second  physician  to 
locate  in  Indianapolis,  in  May,  1821.  He  was  a 
native  of  New  Jersey.  Besides  being  a  conscien- 
tious practitioner  and  indefatigable  in  his  labors, 
he  helped  to  organize  the  first  church  and  first 
Sunday  school  in  the  city.  His  remains  repose 
in  Crown  Hill  Cemetery  by  the  side  of  his  wife. 

"Dr.  Livingston  Dunlap  came  from  the  State 
of  New  York  in  July,  1821.  He  and  Dr.  Mitchell 
formed  a  medical  partnership,  the  first  medical 
firm  in  the  city.  Dr.  Dunlap  ranked  high  as  a 
physician  and  surgeon.  He  was  in  especial  de- 
mand as  a  consultant.    He  was  councilman  from 


*  See  also  State  Transactions,  1893.  p.  16. 


32  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

his  ward  in  1834.  He  was  physician  of  the 
Deaf  and  Dumb  Institution  for  several  years, 
and  was  postmaster  from  1845  to  1849.  He  was 
elected  professor  of  theory  and  practice  in  1849 
at  the  organization  of  the  first  medical  college 
in  Indianapolis.  He  practiced  in  the  city  for 
41  years,  and  at  the  date  of  his  death,  in  1862, 
was  the  senior  physician.  He  was  the  first  per- 
manent president  of  the  State  Medical  Conven- 
tion, presiding  at  the  session  of  1849. 

"Dr.  Scudder  located  in  Indianapolis  in  1821, 
and  died  there  in  1829.  He  was  regarded  as  an 
excellent  physician  and  a  Christian  gentleman. 

"Dr.  Jonathan  Cool,  a  native  of  New  Jersey, 
located  in  Indianapolis  in  August,  1821.  He 
was  a  graduate  of  an  eastern  medical  college. 
He  received  an  appointment  as  surgeon  in  the 
United  States  Army,  and  for  some  time  was  sta- 
tioned at  the  barracks  at  Newport,  Ky.  He  be- 
came so  intemperate  that  few  would  trust  him, 
and  died  in  1840. 

"Dr.  Charles  McDougle,  a  native  of  Ohio, 
came  to  Indianapolis  in  1828.  He  formed  a 
partnership  with  his  brother-in-law.  Dr.  Dunlap, 
who  married  McDougle's  sister.  In  1832  he 
received  an  appointment  of  surgeon  in  the 
United  States  Army,  in  which  capacity  he  won 
distinction.  When  Dr.  Wishard  met  him  at 
Pittsburg  Landing  in  1862,  he  was  medical  di- 
rector of  General  Grant's  army.  He  died  in 
Virginia  about  1884. 

"Dr.  John  L.  Mothershead,  a  native  of  Ken- 
tucky and  a  graduate  of  the  Transylvania  Medi- 
cal College,  located  in  Indianapolis  in  1830  and 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 


33 


formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  Mitchell.  Later 
he  was  associated  with  Dr.  Sanders,  and  still 
later  with  Dr.  Bullard.  He  died  in  November, 
1854.  He  was  regarded  as  a  successful  practi- 
tioner.* 

_  "Dr.  John  H.  Sanders  (1791-1850)  was  a  na- 
tive of  Bourbon  County,  Kentucky.  In  the  fall 
of  1819  he  rode  to  Philadelphia  on  horseback, 
where  he  attended  his  first  course  in  medicine! 
On  his  return  in  1820,  he  located  in  his  native 
county,  and  soon  became  the  leading  surgeon  of 
all  that  region  of  the  state.  In  1823  he  gradu- 
ated at  Lexington,  Ky.  In  the  winter  of  1829- 
30  he  came  to  Indianapolis,  and  soon  afterward 
formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  Mothershead.  In 
1839  he  moved  to  Missouri,  but  returned  to  In- 
dianapolis in  1841,  where  he  continued  to  reside 
until  his  death,  April  4,  1850.  His  last  partner 
was  Dr.  P.  H.  Jameson.  He  ranked  high  as  a 
surgeon."f 

Early  History  of  Eastern  Indiana 
In  a  paper  on  this  subject.  Dr.  Joel  Penning- 
ton,  of   Milton    (Transactions   of    the   Indiana 
State  Medical  Society,  1873)   has  the  following 
to  say: 

"I  settled  in  the  village  of  Milton  (my  pres- 
ent place  of  residence)  in  October,  1825.  The 
town  consisted  of  seven  families.  We  resided 
during    the     winter     in     10x12     cabins,     with 

*  See  State  Transactions,  1855,  p.  76. 

t  "His  oldest  daughter.  Zerelda  G.,  married  Gov.  David 
Wallace,  Dec.  26,  1836,  and  became  the  stepmother  of  Gen. 
Lew  Wallace,  and  later  so  well  known  as  Mother  Wallace, 
the  apostle  of  temperance  and  reform." — Autobiography  of 
Lew  Wallace,  vol.  i,  p.  45. — G.  W.  II.  K. 


',U  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

puncheon  floors,  clapboard  roofs,  stick  and  clay 
chimneys  and  ample  fireplaces.  We  passed  the 
winter  very  comfortably;  had  a  full  supply  of 
all  the  substantials  of  life  at  low  figures  com- 
pared with  present  prices. 

"About  New  Year  I  purchased  of  an  old 
friend  (Quaker)  a  hindquarter  of  beef,  which 
cost,  in  the  payment  of  a  doctor  bill,  2I/2  cents 
per  pound.  Pork  was  worth  from  $1.25  to  $1.50 
j)er  one  hundred  pounds;  corn,  10  cents  per 
bushel;  potatoes,  12^/2  cents;  turnips,  the  same; 
sweet  potatoes,  25  cents;  wheat,  37%  cents,  and 
all  other  products  of  the  soil  in  proportional 
prices. 

"Our  first  canal  packets  were  run  in  connec- 
tion with  steamboat  travel  to  Cincinnati,  where 
most  of  our  trading  was  done.  This  great 
change  made  the  mode  of  traveling  to  points  on 
the  Ohio  river  so  different  from  our  former 
manner  of  reaching  the  cities,  through  mud  and 
rain,  that  we  certainly  had  good  grounds  for  ex- 
ultation. I  will  state  for  the  information  of  the 
3'Oung  men  in  the  profession  who  have  never 
traveled  over  bad  roads  that  they  can  not  realize 
the  amount  of  labor  and  exposure  to  which  we 
old  doctors  were  subjected  in  the  early  practice 
in  Indiana.  We  had  no  means  of  traveling,  ex- 
cept on  foot  or  on  horseback.  Buggies  had  not 
reached  so  far  West,  and  if  they  had  they  would 
have  been  useless,  on  account  of  the  condition 
of  the  roads.  During  twenty-five  years  or  more 
I  practiced  on  horseback,  as  also  did  my  com- 
peers; to  that  exposure  and  horseback  exercise  I 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  35 

am  disposed  to   attribute  a  large  share   of  the 
good  health  I  possess  at  my  advanced  age. 

"When  called  during  the  fever  and  wild  de- 
lirium^ we  seated  the  patient  on  the  side  of  the 
bed  and  held  him  there,  bv  the  aid  of  assistants 
if  necessary,  opened  a  vein  in  his  arm  by  mak- 
ing as  large  an  orifice  as  practicable,  and  al- 
lowed the  blood  to  flow  until  his  pulse  became 
soft  and  less  resisting,  or  until  syncope  super- 
vened. We  relied  more  on  the  effect  produced 
than  on  the  quantity  of  blood  extracted,  our 
object  being  to  produce  a  decided  impression 
upon  the  heart's  action.  Our  patient  being  in  a 
sitting  posture  and  the  blood  escaping  from  a 
free  opening,  it  did  not  require  a  great  length 
of  time  to  produce  the  desired  effect.  Often 
within  ten  to  twenty  minutes  after  faintness  or 
sickness  occurred  the  subject  of  this  mode  of 
treatment  would  become  bathed  in  a  copious 
perspiration,  and  the  violent  fever  and  delirium 
existing  a  short  time  before  would  have  entirely 
passed  away.  Now,  if  the  indications  seemed  to 
require  it,  we  directed  an  emetic  to  be  given, 
usually  composed  of  tartarized  antimony  and 
ipecac  combined,  or  wine  of  antimony.  After 
free  emesis  and  the  sickness  had  subsided,  if 
thought  necessary,  we  gave  a  brisk  cathartic, 
usually  containing  more  or  less  calomel.  After 
the  primcB  vice  had  been  well  cleared,  it  was  oui 
practice  to  give  opium  in  such  doses  as  the  case 
required,  in  order  to  allay  all  irritability  of  the 
stomach  and  bowels.  We  directed  the  usual 
febrifuges  to  be  given  if  the  fever  should  return, 
and  these  were  given  in  such  doses  as  required 


36  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

to  arrest  or  mitigate  it.  We  used  no  manner  of 
temporizing  treatment,  but  aimed  our  agents 
directly  at  the  extermination  of  diseases.  Opium, 
ij^eeac,  tartarized  antimony,  nitrate  of  potassa, 
spirits  mindereri  and  spirits  of  niter,  with  other 
means  too  tedious  to  mention,  were  all  fre- 
quently brought  into  requisition. 

"Under  the  above  manner  of  treating  a  case 
of  remittent  fever  it  was  no  uncommon  thing 
on  our  second  visit  to  find  our  patient  sitting  up 
feeling  'pretty  well,  except  a  little  weak,'  and 
within  a  few  days  able  to  return  to  his  ordinary 
avocations.  When  we  met  with  more  protracted 
cases  we  had  recourse  to  the  Peruvian  bark,  gen- 
tian, columbo,  and  most  of  the  ordinary  tonics 
of  the  present  time,  excepting  quinia,  which  was 
not  in  use.  For  some  time  after  quinia  was 
introduced  the  price  was  such  that  Hoosiers 
could  not  afford  to  use  it.  The  first  I  used  cost 
at  the  rate  of  $30.00  per  ounce.  I  may  state  in 
this  connection  that  tartar  emetic  was  a  favorite 
remedy  in  all  the  active  or  acute  forms  of  dis- 
ease. 

"We  seldom  lost  patients  from  acute  diseases. 
It  would  have  detracted  from  the  standing  of  a 
medical  man  should  it  have  been  known  that  he 
lost  a  patient  from  inflammation.  He  might 
lose  a  patient  from  sheer  debility  and  be  ex- 
cusable, but  not  from  acute  disease,  provided  he 
saw  the  case  in  an  early  stage  of  the  attack. 

"Among  the  oldest  physicians  of  our  county 
was  Dr.  Ithamar  Warner,  who  first  resided  at 
Salsbury,  our  first  county  seat.  After  the  busi- 
ness  of  the   county  was  transferred  to  Centre- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  37 

ville,  the  Doctor  removed  to  Eichmond,  where 
he  had  a  large  and  remunerative  practice  to  the 
close  of  his  life.  He  never  married;  was  singu- 
lar in  many  respects,  and  very  irritable,  so  much 
so  that  his  patients  were  pretty  certain  to  carry 
out  his  directions  without  equivocation. 

"Dr.  J.  E.  Mendenhal],  also  of  Eichmond, 
was  the  first  graduate  in  medicine  in  the  county 
of  whom  I  have  any  knowledge.  He  received  the 
degree  at  the  Lexington  school,  Kentucky.  He 
was  a  well-qualified  physician  and  an  honorable 
gentleman.  He  had  a  good  practice,  but  re- 
signed it  in  a  few  years  and  turned  his  attention 
to  speculation  in  real  estate,  which  proved  to 
him  a  more  lucrative  business.  He  believed  the 
responsibility  attached  to  the  practice  largely 
overbalanced  the  remuneration  it  afforded. 

"Dr.  Wm.  Pugh,  at  one  time  a  partner  in  the 
practice  with  Dr.  Mendenhall,  resided  in  Eich- 
mond  a  few  years  and  removed  to  Centreville, 
where  he  died  in  1829.  I  think  he  also  attended 
a  course  of  lectures  in  the  Lexington  school. 

"Following  these  were  Drs.  Griffith,  Plummer, 
Vail,  and  Smith,  with  quite  a  number  of  others, 
who  resided  but  a  short  time  in  the  city  of 
Eichmond,  whose  names  I  never  knew,  or  can 
not  now  recollect.  Therefore,  I  must  confine  my 
notice  to  a  few  of  the  more  prominent  practi- 
tioners of  an  early  day,  previous  to  the  year 
1835;  otherwise  I  should  promote  sleep  among 
my  hearers  from  the  length  of  this  paper. 

"The  first  named.  Dr.  Griffith,  came  to  Indi- 
ana from  the  city  of  Philadelphia;  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends ;  soon  ingra- 


38  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

tiated  himself  into  the  confidence  of  the  people, 
and  had  a  fair  practice;  was  called  in  consulta- 
tion by  the  surrounding  physicians  and  consid- 
ered an  able  and  scientific  physician. 

"Dr.  J.  T.  Plummer  was  a  student  of  his  and 
married  his  daughter.  He  was  also  a  Friend; 
graduated,  I  think,  at  one  of  the  Philadelphia 
schools;  was  prominent  as  a  well-educated  and 
scientific  physician,  and  at  one  time  was  con- 
sidered the  best  practical  chemist  in  the  city, 
for  in  most  cases  of  suspected  poisoning  he  was 
called  on  to  analyze  the  contents  of  the  stomach 
and  determine  the  result.  He  died  a  few  years 
ago  from  that  scourge  of  mankind,  consumption. 

"Dr.  J.  A^ail  years  ago  had  an  extensive  prac- 
tice in  and  about  Eichmond;  was  highly  es- 
teemed as  a  practitioner;  was  a  member  of  this 
society;  contracted  disease  in  the  army  (where 
he  filled  the  position  of  regimental  surgeon) 
from  which  he  never  fully  recovered. 

"Dr.  \Ym.  B.  Smith  read  medicine  with  Dr. 
Plummer,  and  had  a  reputable  practice  for  a 
number  of  years.  He  was  a  genial,  social  com- 
panion, but  in  time  became  intemperate,  so 
much  so  that  it  damaged  his  practice.  Yet  he 
had  many  warm  friends  to  the  time  of  his  death. 

"There  are  other  medical  gentlemen  of  Eich- 
mond yet  living  and  whose  names  stand  high, 
and  whose  biographies  must  be  left  for  abler 
pens  than  mine.  The  early  physicians  of  Cen- 
treville  were  Drs.  Sackett,  Finch,  Pier,  Crews, 
and  Dorsey. 

^'^Dr.  Sackett  was  the  oldest  practitioner  of 
Centreville.     Soon  after  the  county  seat  was  es- 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF   INDIANA.  39 

tablished  there,  he  was  elected  recorder  of  the 
countjj  which  office  he  continued  to  hold  for 
many  years;  indeed,  until  his  death.  He  was 
another  victim  of  intemperance. 

"Dr.  Finch  Avas  a  reputable  practitioner  and 
a  gentleman.  He  did  not  reside  long  in  Centre- 
ville,  and  removed  to  Noblesville,  where  he  died 
in  a  short  time  of  phthisis. 

"Drs.  Pier  and  Crews  did  not  remain  long  in 
the  city.  I  had  but  little  acquaintance  with 
either  of  them,  but  believe  that  they  stood  fair 
as  physicians. 

"I  must  next  speak  of  my  friend.  Dr.  W.  W. 
Bunnel,  of  Washington,  who  studied  medicine 
with  Dr.  Lathrop,  of  Waynesville,  AVarren 
County,  Ohio.  Dr.  Bunnel  was  my  preceptor 
during  the  last  six  months  of  school  that  he  ever 
taught.  After  qualifying  himself  for  practice, 
he  settled  in  Washington,  where  he  resided  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1852.  He  died  of 
cholera,  being  sick  but  a  few  hours.  He  was  a 
cautious,  rather  timid,  and  conscientious  practi- 
tioner, a  man  well  read,  and  one  who  thought 
carefully  before  he  acted.  In  1826-7-8  he  had 
much  to  do  with  that  old-fashioned  disease 
known  by  the  name  of  milk  sickness.  In  order 
to  become  acquainted  with  its  symptoms  and 
treatment,  I  spent  some  time  with  the  Doctor  in 
visiting  his  cases,  at  which  time  he  had  as  many 
as  five  or  six  in  the  different  stages  of  the  com- 
plaint, which  gave  me  an  opportunity  to  learn 
what  I  could  of  the  disease  as  it  presented  itself 
at  that  early  period.  It  was  truly  a  formidable 
disease  and  attended  with  great  fatality. 


40  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

"A  Dr.  Waldo,*  of  Jacksonburg,  seven  miles 
northeast  of  Milton,  had  a  larger  practice  in 
milk  sickness  than  any  other  physician  in  the 
connty,  and  had  greater  notoriety  for  success  in 
its  treatment.  He  was  one  of  the  oldest  practi- 
tioners, and  was  a  noble  specimen  of  a  man 
physically,  drank  more  intoxicating  liqnors  than 
was  profitable,  but  never  to  my  knowledge  got 
so  drunk  as  to  incapacitate  him  for  business. 
He  was  immoral  in  many  respects,  very  pro- 
fane, yet  with  all  this  dark  catalogue  he  had 
many  redeeming  traits  of  character.  In  an  early 
period  of  our  history  he  represented  Wayne 
County  in  the  state  legislature,  when  it  met  at 
Corydon.  He  was  termed,  in  common  parlance, 
a  bold  physician,  used  the  lancet  freely,  gave 
from  scruple  to  dram  doses  of  calomel,  etc.  In 
fact,  he  might  be  called  a  northern  Dr.  Cart- 
wright,  as  regarded  doses  of  medicine,  without 
disparagement  to  that  gentleman.  More  than 
twenty  years  ago  he  removed  to  a  farm  on  White 
river,  north  of  Muncie,  where  after  a  few  years 
he  died. 

"Time  will  not  allow  me  to  dwell  longer  on 
the  physicians  of  ^lang  syne,'  yet  I  can  not  omit 
speaking  of  my  friend.  Dr.  John  Pritchett,  of 
Centreville.  He  and  I  (if  I  mistake  not)  are 
the  oldest  practitioners  of  medicine  now  living 
in  the  county.  I  have  one  and  a  half  or  two 
years  the  precedence  in  time.  The  Doctor  is  an 
urbane  gentleman  in  every  sense  of  the  term;  at 
present    confines    himself    principally    to    town 

*  Dr.  Loring  A.  Waldo.  Died  in  the  thirties,  and  is 
burled  at  Windsor,  Randolph  county. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  41 

practice.  When  the  gold  fever  was  at  its  height 
in  California,  Dr.  Pritchett  left  home  and  busi- 
ness in  search  of  'filthy  lucre/  and  in  a  few 
years  returned,  worsted  pecuniarily.  Early  in 
the  late  war  he  was  commissioned  as  regimental 
surgeon  of  the  Fifty-seventh  Eegiment  of  Indi- 
ana Volunteers,  which  position  he  filled  with 
honor  and  credit  to  the  close  of  the  war. 

"The  early  physicians  of  Connersville,  Fay- 
ette County,  to  the  best  of  my  recollection,  were 
Drs.  Moffet,  Gale,  and  Miller;  a  little  later  we 
had  Drs.  Brown  and  Mason,  who  were  partners 
in  the  practice  of  medicine  for  some  years." 

Dr.  Joel  Pennington  (1799-1887)  was  born  in  Hunting- 
ton county,  Pennsylvania,  and,  after  a  medical  preparation, 
located  in  Milton  in  1825.  I  introduce  him  as  deserving 
a  place  in  Indiana  medical  history,  if  for  no  other  reason 
than  that  he  was  a  pioneer  physician  and  contributed  the 
above  article.  He  has  told  his  own  story  in  simple  lan- 
guage. He  was  president  of  the  State  Medical  Society  in 
1873.  He  practiced  medicine  at  Milton  for  more  than  half 
a  century,  and  linally,  when  accident  reduced  him  to  penury, 
and  paralysis  rendered  him  helpless,  charitable  friends  sup- 
plied his  needs  and  made  him  comfortable. — G.   W.  H.   K. 


CHAPTEE  VI. 


Medical  Eeminiscences   of  Madison. 

The  late  Dr.  W.  T.  S.  Cornett,  of  Madison, 
narrates  some  interesting  reminiscences  in  tlie 
Transactions  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  So- 
ciety, 1874,  p.  30,  from  which  the  following  ex- 
tracts are  copied : 

"I  came  to  the  State  of  Indiana  in  the  spring 
of  1824  for  the  purpose  of  practicing  medicine 
and  located  temporarily  in  the  County  of  Dear- 
born. In  the  spring  of  1825  I  moved  to  Ver- 
sailles, Eipley  County,  where  most  of  my  pro- 
fessional life  has  been  spent.  On  coming  into 
the  state  I  was  informed  that  the  law  required 
me  to  be  licensed  to  practice  by  the  society  of 
the  district  in  which  I  lived;  otherwise  I  would 
be  indicted  and  fined. 

EAELY   STATE    MEDICAL   SOCIETY. 

"Each  judicial  constituted  a  medical  district, 
and  there  was  a  state  medical  society  made  up 
of  delegates  elected  annually  by  the  district  so- 
cieties. I  called  on  the  censors  of  the  society, 
satisfied  them  in  regard  to  my  qualifications, 
and  received  from  them  a  permit  to  practice  till 
the  next  meeting  of  the  society,  which  was  held 
at  Lawrenceburg.  At  the  meeting  of  the  society 
I  was  admitted  to  membership  and  received  a 
diploma  according  to  law.     At  that  meeting,  or 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  43 

the  next,  I  have  forgotten  which,  I  was  elected  a 
delegate  to  represent  the  society  at  the  next 
meeting  of  the  state  society  to  be  held  at  In- 
dianapolis. I  prepared  a  professional  essay  and 
started  for  Indianapolis  on  horseback,  and  ac- 
complished the  journey  (65  miles)  in  three  days 
of  hard  travel  through  deep  mud  and  over  bro- 
ken causeways.  The  president  of  the  state  so- 
ciety was  Dr.  Samuel  Grant  Mitchell,  of  In- 
dianapolis, an  elderly  gentleman,  somewhat  cor- 
pulent and  short  of  breath  from  asthma,  per- 
haps. The  society  met  at  Dr.  MitchelFs  office. 
There  Avere  but  few  in  attendance.  Their  names 
were  as  follows:  Drs.  Mitchell,  Dunlap,  Coe 
and  Mothershead,  of  Indianapolis;  Dr.  Sexton, 
of  Eushville;  Dr.  Bell,  of  Shelbyville,  and  my- 
self, from  Versailles.  Dr.  Mothershead  was  then 
a  very  young  man  and  a  partner  to  Dr.  Mitchell. 
"The  president  read  an  address  on  the  occa- 
sion, and,  on  getting  about  half  way  through  it, 
found  that  he  had  lost  a  sheet  and  became  much 
embarrassed.  I  finally  moved  that  the  lost  sheet 
be  stricken  out,  which  was  carried  unanimously, 
and  he  proceeded  with  the  remainder  of  the  ad- 
dress. Finding  that  no  one  but  myself  had  pre- 
pared an  essay  for  the  occasion,  I  proved  too 
diffident  to  produce  it  and  took  it  home  without 
reading.  Afterward  I  prepared  an  abridgement 
of  it,  which  was  published  in  Dr.  Drake's  jour- 
nal at  Cincinnati.  In  the  print  I  found  numer- 
ous typographical  errors,  which  annoyed  me  not 
a  little.  The  meeting  to  which  I  have  referred 
was  the  last  of  the  state  medical  society,  as  pro- 


44  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

vided  for  by  law,  the  politicians  and  people  hav- 
ing adopted  the  idea  of  free  trade  in  medical 
matters,  which  seems  likely  to  continue  for  all 
time  to  come.  So  be  it.  If  rational  medicine 
can  not  take  care  of  itself  let  it  perish.  I  am 
now,  so  far  as  I  know,  the  only  surviving  mem- 
ber of  the  original  state  medical  society. 

"For  a  number  of  years  I  was  the  only  physi- 
cian in  Eipley  County;  had  to  travel  all  over  it 
on  horseback  by  day  and  by  night,  without  re- 
gard to  weather  or  remuneration  for  services. 
Occasionally  I  found  myself  lost  in  the  woods  at 
night,  and  would  have  to  tie  up  my  horse  and 
make  my  bed  on  the  ground  until  morning.  The 
nearest  physicians  with  w^hom  I  was  acquainted 
were  Drs.  Perceval  and  Ferris,  of  Lawrence- 
burg;  Dr.  Torbet,  of  Wilmington;  Drs.  Haynes 
and  James,  of  Eising  Sun;  Drs.  Watts,  Howes 
and  Canby,  of  Madison;  Dr.  Peabody,  of  Ver- 
non; Dr.  Hartclay,  of  Greensburg;  Dr.  Oliver, 
of  Brookville,  and  Dr.  Gillespie,  on  his  farm 
twenty  miles  south  of  me,  all  of  whom  are  in 
their  graves  save  Drs.  Watts  and  James,  who 
have  long  since  retired  from  business.  I  can 
only  make  honorable  mention  of  these  physi- 
cians, having  no  data  upon  which  to  found  bio- 
graphical sketches  of  them  which  would  be  re- 
liable. At  the  period  of  my  advent  into  pro- 
fessional life  (50  years  since)  medical  books 
were  very  scarce,  particularly  so  in  the  West. 
The  physician  who  could  afford  one  work  on 
each  branch  of  the  profession  was  considered 
w^ell  off.    The  book  stores  in  Cincinnati,  in  1824, 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  45 

could  not  furnish  a  work  of  each  branch  of  the 
profession.  On  going  there  to  purchase  my 
library,  I  could  not  find  a  work  on  materia 
medica  for  sale  in  the  place,  and  had  to  appeal 
to  a  young  physician  who  had  lately  arrived 
from  Philadelphia,  who  was  so  obliging  as  to 
sell  me  the  work  of  Murray  with  notes  by  Chap- 
man. 

"In  the  year  1843  my  friend,  Dr.  Charles 
Parry,  late  of  Indianapolis,  read  a  paper  on  the 
treatment  of  congestive  fever  with  quinin,  be- 
fore the  Academy  of  Medicine  at  Philadelphia, 
v^htich  attracted  much  attention,  and  he  was 
invited  to  repeat  it  to  a  fuller  house,  which  he 
did.  After  this,  numerous  essays  soon  made 
their  appearance  in  favor  of  the  treatment  of 
remittent  fever  with  quinin,  and  the  former 
practice  was  soon  superseded. 

THE    EARLY   SURGEET    OF    INDIANA. 

"In  surgery,  as  well  as  in  medicine,  there 
has  been  an  advance  within  my  remembrance.  I 
knew  a  surgeon  half  a  century  ago  who  made  it 
a  rule  to  trephine  in  every  case  of  fracture  of  the 
skull,  whether  there  was  depression  of  the  bone 
or  not.  He  boasted  that  he  had  bone  buttons 
enough,  bored  from  the  skulls  of  his  patients,  to 
furnish  a  full  set  for  a  double-breasted  coat. 
Fractured  skulls  were  more  common  then  than 
now,  the  temperance  reformation  not  having 
commenced,  or  even  been  seriously  thought  of, 
save  by  one  man,  and  that  man  was  Dr.  Benja- 


46  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

min  Eush  (see  his  great  address  on  the  abuse  of 
ardent  spirits,  Volume  I  of  his  work,  A.  D. 
1818).  In  1829  Dr.  Daniel  Drake  made  a  most 
powerful  and  eloquent  appeal  to  the  public  on 
this  subject  in  an  address  delivered  before  the 
Hamilton  County  Agricultural  Society,  which 
did  much  good  in  the  West  in  stirring  up  or- 
ganized action  against  this  most  monstrous  of 
all  evils  on  earth. 

"Half  a  century  ago,  surgeons,  and  the  people 
generally,  practiced  blood-letting  for  almost 
every  injury.  Sir  Charles  Bell  was  among  the 
first  to  denounce  this  practice  in  concussion  of 
the  brain.  He  said,  in  such  a  case,  the  surgeon 
would  say  bleed,  and  the  landlady  would  say 
give  him  a  glass  of  brandy,  and  that  he  (Sir 
Charles)  would  in  this  case  take  sides  with  the 
landlady.  Half  a  century  ago  I  have  seen  lint 
dipped  in  whisky  used  with  good  results  as  an 
application  to  wounds.  The  lint  should  never 
be  allowed  to  get  dry.  I  have  used  this  dressing 
more  or  less  throughout  the  whole  of  my  profes- 
sional life,  and  have  never  seen  erysipelas  occur 
in  a  wound  where  it  was  used.  Its  action  is 
threefold,  as  it  stimulates  the  injured  vessels, 
tends  to  ease  pain,  and,  lastly,  prevents  the  de- 
composition of  purulent  matter,  which  is  poison- 
ous. 

"The  greatest  advantage  of  the  metallic  su- 
ture over  thread  is  that  thread  absorbs  pus, 
which  decomposes  in  it  and  becomes  poisonous, 
while  metal  absorbs  nothing.  The  tincture  of 
arnica  has   acquired   a   great   reputation   as   an 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  47 

applicant  in  contusions.  It  is  the  whisky,  and 
not  the  arnica,  which  is  entitled  to  whatever 
credit  is  due  in  this  case.  'Whisky  is  sometimes 
good  as  a  medicine  if  properly  used.  I  have 
never,  and  never  will,  so  use  it  as  to  turn  a  sick 
man  into  a  drunkard." 


CHAPTEE  VII. 


Early   State  Medical   Society. — Historical 

i^OTES  OE  Ia^diaxapolis. — The  Medical 

College  at  Laporte. 

In  the  Transactions  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society  for  1874,  p.  26,  the  late 
Dr.  W.  B.  Fletcher,  of  Indianapolis,  records 
some  interesting  history  of  the  "Early  State 
Medical  Society,^'  from  which  the  following 
extracts  are  taken: 

"A  judicial  was  considered  a  medical  district. 
A  district  medical  society  was  formed  in  June^ 
1817,  in  Vincennes,  and  at  a  meeting  of  the 
same  in  May,  1818,  delegates  were  appointed  to 
meet  with  similar  delegations  of  other  district 
societies  and  form  a  state  medical  society.  F.  S. 
Shald  and  Phillip  Bates  were  snch  delegates. 
The  state  society  was  not  formed,  however,  until 
1820,  when  it  met  in  Corydon,  then  the  capital 
of  the  state.  Afterward,  in  1826,  it  held  its 
meeting  in  Indianapolis,  the  seat  of  government 
having  been  removed  thither.  These  facts  are 
obtained  from  the  Western  Censor  and  other  pa- 
pers of  the  period,  extracts  from  which  we  give: 

"The  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  Indiana 
met  at  Corydon  on  the  10th.  The  following  gen- 
tlemen were  elected  officers  for  the  ensuing  year, 
viz. : 

^'President — Asahel  Clapp,  New  Albany.  Vice- 
President — S.  Everts  Union  County.     Secretary 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  49 

— L.  Dunlap,  Indianapolis.  Treasurer — D.  B. 
Mitchell,  Corydon.  Censors — David  Oliver, 
Brookville;  G.  L.  Murdoch,  Brookville;  C.  Ful- 
lerton,  Princeton. 

"January  4th,  1823. — At  the  fourth  annual 
meeting  of  the  Medical  Society,  which  took  place 
at  Corydon  on  the  11th  ult.,  the  following  gen- 
tlemen were  elected  officers  for  the  ensuing  year: 

"President — Dr.  D.  G.  Mitchell.  Vice-Presi- 
dent— Dr.  S.  Everts.  Secretary — Dr.  J.  Fowler, 
Treasurer — Dr.  Snyder.  Censors — Drs.  J.  E. 
Bush,  Snyder,  and  A.  Clapp. 

FIFTH   DISTRICT   MEDICAL  SOCIETY. 

"First  Meeting  at  Indianapolis. — Pursuant  to 
a  resolution  of  the  State  Medical  Society  a  num- 
ber of  the  practicing  physicians  of  the  Fifth 
Judicial  District  met  at  Indianapolis  on  Mon- 
day, the  1st  day  of  May,  1836,  and  proceeded  to 
business.  Dr.  Isaac  Coe  was  chosen  chairman, 
and  K.  A.  Scudder,  secretary.  The  following 
officers  were  chosen  for  the  ensuing  year: 

"President — Dr.  Isaac  Coe.  Secretary — ^Dr. 
Livingston  Dunlap.  Treasurer — Dr.  K.  A. 
Scudder.  Censors — Drs.  Laughlin,  Sexton,  and 
Morris.  Delegates — Drs.  S.  G.  Mitchell,  Isaac 
Coe,  and  Sexton. 

"Resolved,  That  each  annual  meeting  of  this 
society  be  on  the  first  Monday  in  May,  and  the 
semiannual  meeting  on  the  day  preceding  the 
meeting  of  the  State  Medical  Society. 

"The  society  then  adjourned. 

"Isaac  Coe,  President. 

"K.  A.  Scudder,  Secretary." 


50  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

FROM  HISTORICAL  NOTES  ON  INDIANA,  PUBLISHED 

AND     COMMUNICATED     TO     THE     GAZETTE, 

INDIANAPOLIS,   MARCH    Q,    1822,    BY 

DR.  S.   G.  MITCHELL. 

"March  6,  1832.— The  predisposing  influ- 
ences that  caused  the  citizens  of  Indianapolis  to 
become  a  prey  to  intermittent  and  remittent 
fevers  were  numerous:  the  thickness  of  the  for- 
est, with  an  unusual  wet  or  damp  season;  a 
numerous  concourse  of  strangers  crowded  to- 
gether; great  fatigue  of  moving  and  anxiety  of 
mind;  uncomfortable  accommodations;  liberal 
use  of  fresh  meat,  more  especially  fish,  which  was 
used  in  great  abundance.  The  disease  may  have 
existed  in  a  certain  constitution  of  the  atmos- 
phere, which  caused  the  marsh  miasma  or  dele- 
terious effluvia  to  be  worse  on  the  margin  of  the 
water-course,  which  was  a  fact,  and  in  the  east 
it  prevailed  more  generally  than  in  the  west. 
Those  who  escaped  lived  off  from  the  river.  Out 
of  1,000  souls  in  town  on  the  donation,  and  the 
farms  surrounding  the  town,  at  least  900  sick- 
ened during  the  prevailing  epidemic.  Twenty- 
five  deaths  occurred  before  the  last  of  October. 
About  that  period  the  place  was  restored  to 
health.  Its  fatality  was  principally  amongst 
children,  but  the  town  will  long  lament  over  the 
loss  of  some  of  its  most  favorite  citizens.  The 
symptoms  that  marked  our  epidemic  were  such 
as  medical  writers  recognize  in  the  introduction 
of  common  violent  intermittent  and  remittent 
fevers;  debility,  languor,  yawning  and  stretch- 
ing, with  a  listlessness  and  inaction  to  motion; 
coldness  then  commences  in  the  extremities  and 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.  51 

soon  covers  the  body  with  sensations,  to  the  pa- 
tient,  of   cold   water   being  poured   over  them. 
In  some  cases  the  coldness  only  produced  chills; 
in  other  cases  it  produced  universal  convulsive 
shaking.     It  has,  then,   improperly  been  called 
ague.     Very  few  cases  occurred  that  we  might 
call  a  well-defined  case  of  ague  and  fever.     The 
symptoms  that  succeeded  the  cold  stage  were  a 
dry,  burning,  hot  skin,  with  a  red,  tense  and 
swollen  appearance;  pains  violent  and  shifting 
to  different  parts  of  the  system;  the  pulse  quick, 
but  not  universally  strong;   the  bowels  consti- 
pated, and  great  thirst.     After  some  hours   of 
pain  and  suffering,  a  perspiration  became  uni- 
versal, the  pulse  diminished  in   frequency  and 
became  full  and  free,  and  all  the  functions  of 
the  system  were  restored  to  their  natural  order. 
The  species   of  fever   differed   in   different  pa- 
tients, and  in  the  same  patient,  in  different  at- 
tacks, sometimes  a  quotidian,   sometimes  a  ter- 
tian, and  at  other  times  assumed  a  quartan  type. 
It  was  a  disease  that  readily  yielded  to  appro- 
priate remedies,  and  as  readily  again  recurred. 
During  the  hot  stage,  the  physician's  object  was 
to  promote  perspiration,  and  to  accomplish  that 
object   he   selected    such   internal    and   external 
remedies   as   he   thought   advisable.      Afterward 
the  stomach  and  bowels  were  well  prepared  for 
the  reception  of  Peruvian  bark— it  was  genuine, 
and  given  in  spirits,  in  large  quantities— a  valu- 
able medicine,  and  rarely  disappointed  the  phy- 
sician's expectation.     The  disposition  the  fever 
had  to  recur  again  and  again,  and  the  universal 


52  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

attack  of  the  disease,  and  the  few  deaths  in  pro- 
portion to  the  sick,  was  a  remarkable  circum- 
stance/^ 

The  Medical  College  at  Laporte. 

Dr.  Tompkins  Higday,  formerly  of  Laporte, 
records  in  the  Transactions  of  1874,  p.  24,  some 
historical  facts  concerning  the  Indiana  Medical 
College  at  Laporte,  Ind.,  from  1842  to  1850, 
from  which  the  following  quotations  are  made: 

"Daniel  Meeker,  the  originator  of  the  college, 
was  born  in  Schoharie  County,  New  York,  Dec. 
17,  1806;  attended  his  first  course  of  lectures  at 
Fairfield,  IST.  Y.;  graduated  at  the  close  of  his 
second  year,  at  Willoughby,  Ohio,  and  located  in 
Laporte  in  May,  1835.  He  first  organized  a 
spring  course  of  lectures,  which  was  given  dur- 
ing March  and  April,  1842.  A  charter  for  the 
Laporte  University  was  then  secured,  and  the 
first  regular  course  of  medical  lectures  began  the 
following  autumn,  thus : 

"Spring  Course,  Eight  Weeks. — Daniel 
Meeker,  M.D.,  anatomy  and  surgery.  Jacob  P. 
Andrew,  M.D.,  obstetrics  and  diseases  of  women 
and  children.     Mne  matriculates. 

"1842-3.  The  regular  courses  were  sixteen 
weeks.  Daniel  Meeker,  M.D.,  anatomy  and  sur- 
gery. Franklin  Hunt,  M.D.,  materia  medica  and 
botany.  Jacob  P.  Andrew,  M.D.,  obstetrics  and 
diseases  of  women  and  children.  Gustavus  A. 
Eose,  M.D.,  theory  and  practice.  John  B.  Mies, 
A.M.,  chemistry.  Thirty  matriculates;  one  grad- 
uate. 

1843-4.  The  same,  except  Jacob  P.  Andrews, 
M.D.,  in  place  of  G.  A.  Eose,  M.D.,  theory  and 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  53 

practice.  Forty-three  matriculates;  four  grad- 
uates. 

"1844-45.  Daniel  Meeker,  M.D.,  surgery. 
George  W.  Eichards,  M.D.,  St.  Charles,  111.,  an- 
atomy. Moses  L.  Knapp,  M.D.,  of  Chicago, 
materia  medica.  Nichols  Hard,  M.D.,  of  Au- 
rora, 111.,  obstetrics  and  diseases  of  women  and 
children.  Daniel  E.  Brown,  M.D.,  Schoolcraft, 
Mich.,  theory  and  practice.  John  B.  Xiles,  A.M., 
chemistry.  John  L.  Torrey,  M.D.,  of  Elgin,  111., 
demonstrator.  Sixty-three  matriculates;  ten 
graduates. 

"1845-6.  Daniel  Meeker,  M.D.,  anatomy  and 
physiology.  Azariah  B.  Shipman,  M.D.,  of 
Cortland,  N.  Y.,  surgery.  Moses  L.  Knapp, 
M.D.,  materia  medica.  Mcholas  Hard,  M.D., 
obstetrics  and  diseases  of  women  and  children. 
George  W.  Eichards,  M.D.,  theory  and  practice. 
John  B.  Niles,  A.M.,  chemistry.  John  L.  Tor- 
rey, M.D.,  demonstrator.  Eighty  matriculates; 
17  graduates. 

"1846-7.  The  same  corps  of  professors.  Ninety 
matriculates;   20  graduates. 

"1847-8.  Daniel  Meeker,  M.D.,  anatomy  and 
physiology.  A.  B.  Shipman,  M.D.,  surgery. 
Elizur  Deming,  M.D.,  of  Lafayette,  Ind.,  materia 
medica.  (The  lectures  were  given  by  the  fac- 
ulty.) Theory  and  Practice.  Nicholas  Hard, 
M.D.,  obstetrics  and  diseases  of  women  and  chil- 
dren. Tompkins  Higday,  M.D.,  adjunct  profes- 
sor of  anatomy.  John  B.  Mies,  A.M,.  chemistry. 
One  hundred  and  one  matriculates;  21  grad- 
uates. 


54  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

"1848-9.  Daniel  Meeker,  M.D.,  anatomy.  A. 
B.  Shipman,  M.D.,  surgery.  Elizur  Deming, 
M.D.,  theory  and  practice.  J.  Adams  Allen, 
A.M.,  M.D.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  materia  medica, 
therapeutics  and  medical  jurisprudence.  Nich- 
olas Hard,  M.D.,  obstetrics  and  diseases  of 
women  and  children.  T.  Higday,  M.D.,  physiol- 
ogy and  general  pathology.  John  B.  Niles,  A.M., 
chemistry.  George  W.  Lee,  M.D.,  demonstrator. 
Ninety-three  matriculates;    30  graduates. 

"1849-50.  Same  corps  of  professors  as  former 
years.  George  W.  Lee,  M.D.,  demonstrator.  Six- 
ty-five matriculates;    24  graduates. 

"Spring  Course  at  Lafayette,  Eight  Weeks. — 
Elizur  Deming,  M.D.,  theory  and  practice.  T. 
Higday,  M.D.,  anatomy  and  physiology.  Daniel- 
Meeker,  M.D.,  surgery.  J.  Adams  Allen,  A.M., 
M.D.,  materia  medica,  etc.  E.  T.  Brown,  chem- 
istry. Jos.  M.  Havens,  M.D.,  demonstrator.  Nine 
matriculates;  4  graduates. 

"Many  of  the  graduates  of  the  school  have  be- 
come prominent  practitioners,  a  few  of  whom  are 
Dr.  Evans,  Evansville,  Wis.;  Dr.  Lee,  Shulls- 
burg.  Wis.;  Dr.  Brown,  Madison,  Wis.;  Dr. 
Green,  Marengo,  HI.;  Dr.  C.  Hard,  Aurora,  HI.; 
Dr.  Young,  Chicago;  and  in  Indiana,  Dr. 
Humphrey,  South  Bend;  Dr.  Butterworth, 
Mishawaka;  Dr.  Lomax,  Marion;  Dr.  Austin, 
Hecla;  Dr.  Pettijohn,  Deming;  Dr.  Baker, 
Stockwell;  Dr.  Webb,  Franldin;  Dr.  Wishard, 
Greenwood;  and  Dr.  Evarts,  of  the  Insane  Asy- 
lum, Indianapolis.  Three  of  the  graduates  only, 
so  far  as  I  know,  have  been  elected  to  professor- 
ships,  viz. :    Wells  E.   Marsh,   to   the  chair   of 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  55 

chemistry,  Keokuk  College,  Iowa;  S.  S.  Todd, 
to  the  chair  of  theory  and  practice,  Kansas  City 
Medical  College,  Missouri;  and  T.  Higday,  to 
the  chairs  of  physiology  and  general  patholog}^ 
and  of  anatomy,  in  the  Indiana  Medical  College, 
LaPorte,  Ind. 

"In  1848  the  charter  was  amended,  changing 
the  name  from  "The  Medical  Department  of  the 
Laporte  University''  to  "The  Indiana  Medical 
College."  The  spring  course  was  given  at  Laf- 
ayette, at  the  instance  of  Dr.  Deming,  whose  ob- 
ject was  to  arouse  sufficient  interest  there  to  en- 
able him  to  erect  a  suitable  building,  and  then 
have  the  college  transferred  from  Laporte  to 
Lafayette.  Failing  in  this,  he  gave  two  courses 
in  the  Medical  College  at  Indianapolis.  At  his 
death,  I  have  been  informed,  he  left  a  work  on 
theory  and  practice  in  an  advanced  state  of  prep- 
aration for  publication. 

"Dr.  Meeker  gave  one  course  on  anatomy  at 
Indianapolis  and  five  at  Keokuk,  Iowa,  after  the 
discontinuance  of  the  Laporte  school.  Dr. 
Meeker  is  a  thorough  anatomist,  a  bold,  success- 
ful operator  in  surgery;  a  man  of  iron  will, 
great  physical  endurance,  and  withal  a  firm  be- 
liever in  the  resurrection  of  the  dead;  just  the 
man  to  start  successfully  a  medical  college  in  a 
small  town. 

"  'Old  Death,'  as  the  students  familiarly  called 
him,  never  failed  to  keep  the  dissecting-room 
abundantly  supplied  with  fresh  subjects." 


CHAPTER   VIII. 


Early  Medical  History  of  Terre  Haute. — 

Proceedings  oe  the  First  Medical 

District  Society    (Vincennes). 

The  late  Dr.  Ezra  Eead,  of  Terre  Haute,  in 
the  Transactions  for  1874,  p.  45,  has  given  some 
valuable  historical  facts  of  the  early  history  of 
that  city,  from  which  we  make  the  following  ex- 
tracts : 

"I  settled  in  Terre  Haute  in  the  year  1843, 
as  a  practicing  physician  and  surgeon,  having 
been  invited  here  by  Dr.  Ebenezer  Daniels  and 
tendered  an  equal  partnership  in  his  business.  I 
had,  at  that  time,  some  professional  experience, 
having  graduated  at  the  Cincinnati  Medical  Col- 
lege (Drake's  College)  in  1836  and  served  four 
years  in  the  military  service  of  Texas  —  three 
years  as  staff  surgeon  of  Gen.  Felix  Huston  and 
one  year  as  fleet  surgeon  upon  the  ship  of  war 
Zavalla. 

"The  prominent  physicians  of  Terre  Haute,  in 
the  year  I  settled  here,  1843,  were  Drs.  Ebenezer 
Daniels,  Septer  Patrick,  Edward  V.  Ball  and 
Azel  Holmes. 

"Drs.  Irish  and  Brooks  were  here,  young  men, 
and  some  others  not  now  remembered,  but  within 
a  few  months  they  sought  locations  elsewhere. 
Just  prior  to  that  time  Dr.  John  W.  Hitchcock 
had  left,  having  very  creditably  sustained  himself 
in  his  profession  for  several  years.     He  was  the 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  57 

pupil  of  Dr.  A^alentine  Mott  of  New  York,  was 
a  good  surgeon,  had  professional  merit  and  was 
recommended  to  this  community  by  his  pre- 
ceptor; was  a  brother-in-law  of  Dr.  G.  W.  Mears 
of  Indianapolis. 

"Dr.  Daniels  was  a  man  of  learning;  a  grad- 
uate of  the  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadel- 
phia; ambitious,  industrious  and  jealous  of  his 
rights.  He  had  studied  the  profession  with  great 
care;  practiced  it  with  care,  and  brought  to  his 
aid  judgment,  skill  and  learning.  He  was  a  good 
surgeon  and  partial  to  that  branch  of  the  profes- 
sion. I  have  rarely  seen  any  one  who  could  more 
readily  bring  to  light  latent  difficulties  at  the 
bedside,  or  more  skillfully  suggest  proper  reme- 
dies. It  is  no  disparagement  to  the  most  learned 
physicians  of  Indiana,  at  that  time,  to  say  that 
Dr.  Daniels  was  in  all  respects  their  equal.  He 
died  of  pneumonia  in  1847,  aged  about  56  years. 

"Dr.  Patrick  was  a  kind-hearted,  blunt,  honest 
physician,  originally  from  the  State  of  New 
York;  had  practiced  medicine  on  the  Wabash 
and  in  this  place  until  his  head  was  whitened, 
enjoying  the  confidence  and  respect  of  his  med- 
ical brethren  and  the  entire  community;  always 
poor,  always  industrious  and  faithful  to  the  sick, 
and  always  a  good  physician.  He  attended  one 
course  of  lectures  in  New  York;  was  a  careful 
observer  and,  from  long  practice,  was  skilled  in 
the  diseases  of  this  locality.  In  the  California 
gold  excitement  he  went  there,  like  many  others, 
only  to  find  the  same  obstacles  he  had  left  be- 
hind. He  died  in  that  state  in  the  year  1858, 
aojed  78  vears. 


58  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

"Dr.  Ball^  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  was  an  ex- 
cellent and  highly  esteemed  citizen  and  a  very 
careful  and  industrious  physician,  but  lacked 
confidence  in  his  own  judgment  and  in  the  cer- 
tainty of  medicine,  and  was  consequently  vacil- 
lating in  his  opinions  and  practice.  He  com- 
manded the  confidence  of  his  patients,  and  for 
more  than  forty  years  enjoyed  a  very  large  prac- 
tice.   He  died  in  the  year  1873,  aged  73  years. 

"Dr.  Azel  Holmes  was  born  in  Herkimer  coun- 
ty, New  York,  in  the  year  1804;  studied  med- 
icine with  the  celebrated  Dr.  Massey,  and  grad- 
uated in  medicine  in  one  of  the  New  England 
schools.  He  enjoyed  an  extensive  practice  in  this 
city  for  several  years;  had  cultivated  and  care- 
ful ability;  was  exact  and  precise,  and  a  most 
excellent  physician.  He  went  to  California  in  the 
year  1850  with  his  brother-in-law,  Joseph  0. 
Jones,  Esq.,  of  this  city,  and  died  in  Sacramento 
City  the  same  year. 

"The  picture  will  not  be  very  flattering,  to 
those  of  pecuniary  tastes  and  desires  about  enter- 
ing the  profession,  when  told  that  many  years  of 
toil  and  drudgery  had  not  given  to  any  of  these 
physicians  estates  exceeding  in  value  $5,000,  Dr. 
Ball  excepted. 

"It  is  due  to  my  dead  confreres  to  say  that 
tliey  were  temperate,  charitable  and  exemplary, 
and  in  all  of  their  professional  obligations  scru- 
pulously exact.  As  physicians  and  citizens  their 
lives  were  without  blemish  and  without  stain. 

"Dr.  Henry  D.  Lee,  a  native  of  Virginia,  set- 
tled, in  early  times,  on  a  farm  ten  miles  from 
Terre   Haute   and   near  Lockport,   this   county. 


MEDICAL    EISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  50 

He  was  a  good  physician,  without  pretension, 
and  at  all  times  commanded  the  esteem  of  med- 
ical men  and  the  universal  respect  of  his  neigh- 
bors. He  was  a  Christian  gentleman,  and  through 
life  was  occasionally  in  the  habit  of  preaching 
in  his  own  neighborhood  and  abroad.  He  died 
in  1871,  aged  66  years,  on  his  birthday. 

"Dr.  Hamilton,  of  Prairieton,  in  this  county, 
was  a  graduate  of  one  of  the  Philadelphia  schools 
of  medicine,  and  was  eminently  fitted,  by  educa- 
tion and  habit,  for  a  professional  position,  but 
died  young — in  the  year  1851. 

"I  have  named  all  of  the  prominent  medical 
men  in  this  county  thirty  years  ago,  not  one  of 
whom  now  lives.    Of  all  these,  I  am  alone  left. 

MEDICAL   SOCIETIES. 

"When  I  came  here  I  found  a  medical  society 
in  existence  which,  at  one  time,  had  created  a 
good  deal  of  professional  interest,  but  was  then 
languishing  and  not  well  attended.  Subsequently 
the  society  was  reorganized  and  called  the  Vigo 
County  Medical  Society.  The  society  has  never 
excited  among  its  members  the  interest  it  should, 
and  general^  has  been  in  a  sickly  condition. 

"In  the  year  1817,  the  next  year  after  the  set- 
tlement of  Terre  Haute  and  fiye  years  before  that 
of  Indianapolis,  a  medical  society  was  formed  at 
Vincennes,  embracing  in  territory  this  and  the 
county  of  Parke,  north  of  us,  or  a  distance  north 
of  Vincennes  of  ninety  miles.  Its  very  first  mem- 
bers were  men  of  distinguished  character,  and  of 
earnest  professional  zeal,  as  may  be  known  from 
extracts  from  their  original  proceedings,  the  pa- 


60  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

pers  now  on"  my  table  and  kindly  furnished  by 
Mrs,  Shuler^  the  widow  of  one  of  its  most  dis- 
tinguished members. 

"Dr.  John  W.  Davis,  of  Carlisle,  Sullivan 
county,  afterward  a  member  of  Congress,  speaker 
of  the  House  of  Representatives,  minister  to 
China,  and  governor  of  Oregon,  was  one  of  its 
early  members.  But  Dr.  Lawrence  S.  Shuler, 
twice  elected  president  of  the  society,  sent  as  del- 
egate to  the  first  state  medical  society,  and  a  can- 
didate for  Congress  when  this  congressional  dis- 
trict embraced  a  greater  area  of  territory  than 
one-third  of  Indiana,  deserves  more  than  a  pass- 
ing notice,  for  his  surgical  skill  has  been  trans- 
mitted from  sire  to  son  to  the  present  time.  He 
was  a  native  of  the  State  of  New  York,  bom  in 
1790,  and  was  a  graduate  of  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons,  New  York.  One  of  his 
tickets  admitting  him  to  lectures  is  before  me,  of 
date  1815;  also  his  diploma,  placed  at  my  dis- 
posal by  his  excellent  wife.  The  doctor  was  an 
earnest,  scientific  and  skillful  surgeon.  I  enclose 
his  own  notes  of  a  false  joint  successfully  treated. 
He  operated  at  one  time  upon  a  little  girl,  aged 
11  years,  for  congenital  blindness,  with  perfect 
success.  The  child  stayed  at  his  house  several 
months,  and  when  vision  was  restored,  Mrs. 
Shuler  states,  she  was  almost  bewildered  with 
joy  at  the  wonders  before  her.  Colors  were  with 
difficulty  learned,  and  her  friends  only  known, 
for  a  long  time  by  the  sound  of  their  voices.  When 
her  father  came  for  her  he  was  a  stranger  to  her 
eyes  but  a  father  when  he  spoke.  He  also  re- 
moved a  very  large  abdominal  tumor  from  a  lady 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  01 

in  the  seventh  month  of  gestation.  She  recov- 
ered^ gave  birth  to  a  healthy  child,  and  is  still 
living  near  Vincennes. 

"I  have  repeatedly  heard  medical  men,  con- 
temporaneous with  the  doctor,  speak  of  this  oper- 
ation as  meritorious  and  capital,  but  have  not 
heard  its  character  described,  except  that  it  was 
within  the  abdominal  cavity  and  was  considered 
hazardous  and  difficult.  For  several  years  he 
commanded  the  surgery  of  a  very  large  scope  of 
the  country,  and  I  have  no  doubt  was  eminently 
and  justly  entitled  to  it.  He  was  father  of  the 
warden  of  the  State  Penitentiary  at  JeSerson- 
ville,  and  brother-in-law  of  our  worthy  citizen, 
IST.  F.  Cunningham,  former  state  treasurer.  Dr. 
Shuler  practiced  medicine  in  this  city  four  or 
five  years  prior  to  his  death,  which  took  place  in 
Vincennes  in  1827  while  on  a  visit  there  for  a 
change  and  health,  aged  37  years.  He  contracted 
a  cold  from  exposure  in  visiting  Indianapolis  the 
previous  winter,  which  settled  on  his  lungs  and 
terminated  in  consumption.  Dr.  Shuler  trans- 
ferred the  Vincennes  First  District  Society  to 
this  place  when  he  came  here^  in  1822  or  1823, 
and  kept  it  in  a  flourishing  condition  during  his 
life. 

"Dr.  Charles  B.  Modesett  was  one  of  the  earli- 
est, if  not  the  first,  physician  who  settled  on 
Fort  Harrison  Prairie,  the  prairie  on  which 
Terre  Haute  is  located.  At  that  early  day  the 
Indians  greatly  exceeded  the  whites  in  numbers 
and,  for  safety,  most  persons  settled  at  or  near 
Fort  Harrison,  then  a  military  post,  three  miles 
north  of  Terre  Haute,  the  Indians  having  re- 


62  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

cently  been  hostile  and  in  the  interest  or  service 
of  the  British  Government.  Dr.  Modesett  was 
born  in  Prince  William  county,  Virginia,  in  the 
year  1784,  and  graduated  at  Prince  William  Col- 
lege in  his  twenty-fourth  year,  about  the  year 
1808;  moved  to  Ohio,  near  Cincinnati,  in  1814, 
and  to  Fort  Harrison  in  1816.  He  attended  the 
first  sale  of  lots  in  Terre  Haute  in  that  year,  and 
shortly  afterward  built  one  of  the  first  log  houses 
in  the  new  town  and  commenced  the  practice  of 
medicine.  He  died  in  January,  1848,  aged  64 
years.  Dr.  Modesett  was,  in  manners,  a  courtl}^, 
dignified  Virginia  gentleman,  and  in  all  his 
intercourse  with  the  pioneer  settlers  never  lost 
sight  of  his  self-respect  and  polite  manners.  He 
was  a  diligent  and  faithful  physician,  enjoyed  an 
extensive  practice,  and  deservedly  ranked  with 
the  most  eminent  of  the  profession  in  western 
Indiana. 

"Dr.  William  Clark,  a  military  surgeon  at  Fort 
Harrison,  practiced  medicine  among  the  early 
settlers  for  a  few  years,  and  moved  somewhere 
near  Eugene,  on  the  Wabash,  about  the  year 
1824. 

"Dr.  Aspinwall,  from  the  State  of  Few  York, 
settled  here  in  1817  and  died  in  1824. 

"Dr.  Hotchkiss,  from  Connecticut,  came  here 
in  the  j^ear  1822  and  died  in  1830;  and  Dr. 
Turnce,  from  the  same  state,  came  in  1822  and 
died  in  1832. 

"All  of  these  physicians  are  highly  spoken  of 
by  the  early  settlers  as  skilled  in  the  profession, 
industrious  and  of  good  habits.  Most  of  these 
young  men  had  been  well  educated  in  the  eastern 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  03 

states;  were  enterprising  and  hopeful,  and  came 
to  a  new  country  to  toil  for  a  few  years  and  die. 

"All  of  the  above-named  physicians  belonged 
to  the  First  District  Medical  Society  at  Vin- 
cennes  or  Terre  Haute. 

"I  have  thus  completed,  as  well  as  I  could  with 
the  material  at  my  disposal,  this  imperfect  sketch 
of  the  pioneer  physicians  of  this  part  of  the  Wa- 
bash. It  is  the  only  attempt  known  to  me  of 
preserving  even  their  names  as  a  class. 

COPY  FROM  origi:n"al  proceedings  of  the  first 

MEDICAL   DISTRICT   SOCIETY,   INDIANA 

"Vincennes,  June  2,  1817. — In  conformity  to 
an  act  of  the  Legislature,  passed  the  24th  day 
of  December,  1816,  entitled  an  "Act  to  Eegulate 
the  Practice  of  Physic  and  Surgery,"  the  follow- 
ing censors  appointed  by  said  act  met  at  the 
house  of  Peter  Jones,  in  the  town  of  Vincennes, 
on  the  first  Monday  in  June,  1817,  viz. :  Elias 
McNamee,  Jacob  Key  Kendall,  David  M.  Hale 
and  Thomas  Polke,  secretary.  Board  adjourned 
until  6  o'clock  p.  m.  the  same  day. 

"Board  met  pursuant  to  adjournment  and 
proceeded  to  an  examination  of  Wm.  C.  Whit- 
tlesey, Philip  Barton,  William  Clark,  Lawrence 
S.  Shuler  and  John  L.  McCullough  for  the  prac- 
tice of  physic  and  surgery.  Ordered  that  the 
same  be  licensed.  Board  adjourned  until  June 
3,  at  3  o'clock  p.  m.,  at  the  house  of  C.  Graeter, 
Vincennes. 

"At  this  meeting,  June  3,  1817,  on  motion,  it 
was 


64  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

''Resolved,  That  the  medical  censors  and  li- 
censed physicians  of  the  First  Medical  District 
proceed,  according  to  law^,  to  organize  the  board 
for  said  district. 

"On  balloting  for  officers  for  the  board  Elias 

McNamee   was   duly   elected   president;    L.    S. 

Shnler,  secretary;  David  M.  Hale,  treasurer,  and 

,  Key  Kendall,  Shuler,  Barton,  Polke  and  McCul- 

lough,  censors. 

"At  a  meeting  of  this  medical  organization  at 
Vincennes,  May,  1818,  on  motion,  it  was 

''Resolved,  That  discretionary  power  be  given 
to  the  president  to  appoint  three  persons  on  be- 
half of  this  board,  to  meet  delegates  appointed 
by  the  other  district  societies,  at  such  time  and 
place  as  shall  be  agreed  npon  for  the  formation 
of  a  State  Medical  Society. 

"This  is  probably  the  first  organization  in  the 
State  of  Indiana  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a 
state  medical  society.  At  this  meeting  'a,  letter 
from  Dr.  Lyman  Spalding,  of  New  York,  was 
read  and  laid  before  the  board.'  At  a  subse- 
quent meeting  of  the  society  in  November,  1818, 
Dr.  Hale  presented  a  letter  from  Dr.  Lyman 
Spaulding,  of  New  York,  together  with  a  circu- 
lar letter  from  the  corresponding  committee,  of 
New  York,  relative  to  a  National  Pharmacopeia, 
which  was,  on.  motion,  approved. 

"To  beginnings  like  these  we  are  indebted  for 
our  present  U.  S.  Dispensatory.  We  can  scarcely 
appreciate  our  obligations  to  these  noble  and 
thoughtful  pioneers  of  medicine,  laboring  among 
poor  backwoodsmen  in  a  sparsely  settled  country 
on  the  verge  of  civilization. 


MEDICAL    HlHTOItY    OF    IXDIANA.  Co 

"The  proceedings  of  the  First  District  Medical 
Society  show  an  earnest  and  honest  determina- 
tion to  protect  the  purity  of  the  profession  and 
the  lives  of  the  community  by  rejecting  candi- 
dates unfitted  or  unprepared  to  practice  medi- 
cine, and  by  pursuing  legal  means  to  suppress 
quackery.  At  the  semi-annual  meeting  at  Vin- 
cennes.  May,  1819,  two  candidates  were  presented 
for  examination  and  membership  rejected.  At 
this  meeting,  on  motion,  it  was 

'"Resolved,  That  two  delegates  be  chosen  to 
meet  in  convention  with  delegates  from  the  other 
district  societies  for  the  purpose  of  forming  a 
State  Medical  Society,  and  to  hold  such  corre- 
spondence with  the  members  of  the  district  board 
as^  they  may  think  proper  in  order  to  form  the 
said  society.  On  counting  the  ballots  it  appeared 
that  L.  S.  Shuler  and  Philip  Barton  were  elected 
delegates. 

"On  motion, 

""Resolved,  That  Elias  Mc^^amee,  L.  S.  Shuler, 
Hiram  Decker,  Philip  Barton  and  William  Whit- 
tlesey be  a  committee  to  choose  a  delegate  to 
meet  in  convention  for  the  purpose  of  forming 
a  District  Pharmacopeia,  and  for  a  general  cor"^ 
responding  committee. 

"On  motion, 

""Resolved,  That  the  corresponding  committee 
be  instructed  to  accept  (if  in  their  opinion  it 
should  be  expedient)  the  proposals  of  Dr.  J. 
Smith,  United  States  agent  for  vaccination,  for 
establishing  a  National  Vaccine  Institution. 

"On  motion  of  Dr.  Shuler,  it  was 

'"Resolved,  That  the  constitution  be  amended 
by  the  addition  of  the  following  article,  ']^o  per- 
son shall  be  admitted  to  an  examination  before 


G6  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

the  medical  censors  without  producing  satisfac- 
tory evidence  of  having  studied  physic  and  sur- 
ger}^  for  the  full  term  of  three  years.' 

'^Resolved,  That  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  sec- 
retary to  pursue  such  measures  as  may  be  neces- 
sary to  carry  into  effect  the  law  regulating  the 
practice  of  physic  and  present  to  the  Grand  Jury, 
or  to  the  prosecuting  attorney  of  each  county  in 
the  district,  all  unlicensed  practitioners  of  med- 
icine. 

"But  few  medical  societies  anywhere  can  show 
a  reference  to  so  many  important  matters  as  were 
acted  upon  at  this  meeting.  This  society  was  the 
^Mecca'  at  whose  shrine,  in  spring-time  and  in 
autumn,  the  professional  pioneers  of  our  state 
came  from  the  hamlet,  from  the  prairie,  and 
from  the  shadowy  and  lonely  forest,  to  offer  their 
devotions  to  medicine  and  kindred  sciences.  The 
paths  leading  hither  were  untrodden.  They  were 
long  and  weary,  but  at  the  end  their  noble  pur- 
poses were  strengthened  and  their  faith  and 
knoAvledge  renewed.  I  personally  knew  Dr.  Jo- 
seph Hopkins,  of  Illinois,  long  an  eminent  and 
useful  practitioner  of  medicine  in  that  state,  who 
was  a  member  of  this  society  and  regularly  at- 
tended its  meetings,  although  to  do  so  he  had  to 
ride  100  miles  on  horseback." 

FALSE    JOINT — BY    DE.    L.    S.    SHULER.* 

"Jonathan  Eathbone,  aged  28  years,  had  his 
humerus  fractured,  near  the  middle,  in  Febru- 
ary, 1822.    Nine  months  afterward  no  union  had 

*  Transactions  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society. 
1874,  p.  57.  Besides  the  historical  interest  of  this  case,  it 
possesses  a  surgical  significance  of  value.  Dr.  Read  has 
mentioned  several  other  interesting  surgical  operations  per- 
formed by  Dr.  Shuler. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXJJIAXA.  07 

taken  place.  His  surgeon  advised  sawing  off  the 
ends  of  the  fractured  portions.  I  was  called  upon 
to  perform  the  operation.  The  fracture  was 
oblique,  a  sharp  point  of  the  lower  portion  pro- 
jecting upward,  near  the  biceps  muscle,  and  ap- 
parently in  contact  with  the  integuments.  The 
space  between  the  broken  ends  was  at  least  half 
an  inch,  filled  with  a  fleshy  or  elastic  substance. 
No  exertions  could  extricate  the  oblique  point 
from  its  position  in  the  muscles  or  bring  the 
bones  in  complete  apposition.  I  advised  the  plan 
of  Dr.  Physick,  and  while  passing  the  seton 
needle,  to  practice  the  suggestions  of  Charles 
Bell,  to  cut  and  break  the  callus  of  the  broken 
bones.  A  strong  needle,  nine  inches  long,  its 
point  for  three  inches  shaped  like  a  common  lan- 
cet but  not  sharp,  with  an  eye  sufficiently  large 
to  admit  a  couple  of  skeins  of  silk  (the  space  be- 
tween the  flattened  part  of  the  needle's  eye  was 
round),  was  used  to  perform  the  operation.  An 
incision  was  made  through  the  integuments  with 
a  scalpel  immediately  over  the  projecting  point 
of  bone;  the  needle  was  introduced,  and  was 
freely  and  forcibly  pushed  in  different  directions 
so  as  to  completely  disorganize  the  structure  be- 
tween and  on  the  ends  of  the  bones.  The  seton 
shortly  produced  a  very  free  discharge,  but  the 
patient,  receiving  no  benefit,  withdrew  it  at  the 
end  of  five  months.  Both  the  patient  and  the  at- 
tending surgeon  had  reluctantly  consented  to  the 
operation,  consequently  but  little  attention  was 
paid  to  the  arm.  It  had,  during  the  larger  part 
of  the  time  that  the  seton  remained,  been  suf- 
eredto  swing,  not  being  retained  in  its  place  as 
in  case  of  recent  fracture.  Two  months  after 
removing  the  seton,  the  patient  observed  that  the 
motion  at  the  false  joint  was  not  as  free  and  ex- 


08  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

tensive  as  formerly,  which  induced  him  to  retain 
the  arm  in  its  natural  position  by  splints  and 
bandages,  and,  in  some  seven  or  eight  weeks 
after,  a  complete  union  was  formed. 

"This  case,  while  it  proves  the  value  of  the 
practice,  which  originated  with  our  celebrated 
countryman.  Dr.  Physick,  likewise  furnishes  us 
with  reason  to  believe  that  the  suggestions  of  Mr. 
Bell,  to  cut  and  penetrate  the  ends  of  the  bones, 
may  assist  in  performing  a  cure  in  cases  where 
the  seton  alone  would  fail,  and  that  in  all  cases 
it  would  hasten  the  process.  Another  fact  of  no 
less  importance  is  that  the  continuance  of  the 
seton  may  succeed  at  a  much  greater  length  of 
time  than  has  been  usually  practiced." 


CHAPTEPt  IX. 


The  Central  Medical  College. — Bobbs  Free 
Dispensary. — Indianapolis  City  Hos- 
pital.— Medical  Societies. 

Dr.  Thad  M.  Stevens,  who  was  formerly  sec- 
retary of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  has  contrib- 
uted to  the  Transactions  of  the  State  Society, 
1874,  p.  17,  historical  matter  of  sufficient  interest 
to  be  used  in  this  paper.    He  says : 

"In  the  fall  of  1849  Central  Medical  College, 
located  at  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  held  its  opening  ex- 
ercises. This  school  was  a  branch  of  the  Asbury 
University,  of  Greencastle,  Ind.,  the  trustees  of 
which  acted  in  the  same  capacity  to  the  college. 
The  professors  who  were  elected  to  the  various 
chairs  were :  John  S.  Bobbs,  Indianapolis,  anat- 
omy; Dr.  Baker,  Cincinnati,  surgery;  L.  Dun- 
lap,  M.D.,  Indianapolis,  theory  and  practice; 
Charles  G.  Downey,  Greencastle,  chemistry; 
James  Harrison,  Indianapolis,  materia  medica 
and  therapeutics. 

"In  the  summer  of  1850  the  Medical  School 
of  Laporte,  Ind.,  having  suspended,  two  who  were 
engaged  in  teaching  there  were  elected  to  chairs 
in  the  Indiana  Central  —  Dr.  Deming  to  the 
newly-formed  chair  of  institutes  of  medicine  and 
general  pathology,  and  Dr.  Meeker  to  fill  the 
chair  of  anatomy.  Professor  Baker  having  re- 
signed the  chair  of  surgery,  and  Professor  Bobbs 
having  been  elected  thereto. 


70  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

"The  last  sessions  of  this  school  were  held  in 
1851-3,  at  which  time,  in  the  wisdom  of  the  trus- 
tees of  the  parent  institution,  an  attempt  was 
made  to  reorganize  according  to  some  pet  scheme, 
but  the  school  was  exploded  and  went  to  pieces. 
From  that  time  until  the  fall  of  1869  a  hiatus 
existed,  wherein  were  no  medical  schools,  or,  in- 
deed, any  institutions,  even  in  a  remote  degree, 
connected  with  medicine. 

"In  the  spring  of  1869  the  Academy  of  Med- 
icine, through  the  influence  and  suggestions  of 
a  few,  took  steps  to  organize  an  independent 
medical  school.  A  committee  was  appointed,  who 
formed  chairs  and  selected  members  to  fill  the 
same.  The  academy  adopted  the  report  of  this 
committee. 

"The  following  were  the  gentlemen  selected  to 
fill  the  various  chairs :  J.  S.  Bobbs,  M.D.,  prin- 
ciples of  surgery;  J.  A.  Comingor,  M.D.,  ortho- 
pedic surgery  and  surgical  pathology;  E.  N". 
Todd,  practice  of  medicine;  T.  B.  Harvey,  M.D., 
diseases  of  women  and  children ;  W.  B.  Fletcher, 
M.D.,  physiology;  E.  T.  Brown,  chemistry; 
Dougan  Clark,  M.D.,  materia  medica;  G.  W. 
Mears,  M.D.,  obstetrics;  L.  D.  Waterman,  M.D., 
anatomy. 

"During  this  term  the  college  met  with  a  great 
loss  in  the  death  of  Prof.  J.  S.  Bobbs,  M.D.,  who, 
without  disparagement  of  any  of  his  associates, 
it  can  be  said,  was  the  real  originator  and  main- 
tainer  of  the  institution. 

"The  faculty  was  reorganized  during  the  sum- 
mer of  1870,  J.  A.  Comingor  taking  the  chair 
of  surger}^^  a  consolidation  of  his  former  chair 


MEDICAL    HJHTOliY    OF    IXDIAXA.  71 

and  that  left  vacant  by  the  death  of  Dr.  Bobbs, 
while  a  new  chair  of  medical  jurisprudence,  tox- 
icology and  analytic  chemistry  was  formed,  with 
Thad.  M.  Stevens,  M.D.,  as  occupant. 

*^In  1871,  by  mutual  agreement,  the  school  be- 
came a  branch  of  the  State  University,  of  Bloom- 
ington,  having,  however,  the  control  of  its  in- 
ternal affairs  vested  in  its  own  faculty. 

BOBBS^    FREE    DISPENSARY 

"Up  to  1870  there  was  nothing  in  the  shape, 
or  having  a  purpose  similar  to,  a  medical  dis- 
pensary in  Indianapolis,  with  exception  of  one 
or  two  private  establishments  that  took  the  name 
for  the  purpose  of  deception,  and  thereby  making 
money,  from  the  circulars  of  imposters,  which 
were  issued  lauding  their  nostrums.  A  gift  to 
the  poor  of  the  city,  from  Dr.  J.  S.  Bobbs,  who 
died  in  the  spring  of  1870,  was  made  the  nucleus 
for  the  establishment  of  Bobbs'  Free  Dispensary, 
its  board  of  directors  to  be  the  faculty  of  the 
medical  college,  having  a  superintendent,  resident 
physician  and  druggist. 

INDIANAPOLIS    CITY   HOSPITAL. 

"As  to  hospitals,  the  city  for  a  long  time  pos- 
sessed nothing  of  the  kind.  Indeed,  no  attempts 
were  made  to  establish  one  until  1858.  At  this 
time  an  attempt,  successful  in  a  small  degree, 
was  made  by  the  late  L.  Dunlap,  M.D.,  then  a 
member  of  the  City  Council,  to  have  the  city 
build  a  City  Hospital.  A  beginning  was  made, 
a  small  building  finished,  and  then  all  dropped, 
stillborn.     The  wind  soon  whistled  through  the 


72  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

broken  panes  of  glass,  and  the  frost  and  rain  in 
turn  covered  the  floors.  'Ro  sick  ever  knocked  at 
the  weather-beaten  door  for  admittance,  and, 
therefore,  no  provision  was  made  for  their  recep- 
tion. This  continued  until  the  war  commenced. 
New  life  surged  into  the  old  walks;  energy  ap- 
peared where  apathy  reigned.  The  building  was 
enclosed,  equipped  and  filled  with  sick  and 
wounded,  and  became  one  of  the  many  hospital 
centers  of  the  city.  After  the  war  had  ceased 
and  the  military  authorities  were  done  with  it, 
decay  and  silence  again  claimed  it  as  their  own; 
the  roving  swine  and  cattle  passed  to  and  fro 
through  is  dismantled  gates,  and  it  became  an 
eyesore  to  the  city.  It  was  not  until  the  demand 
of  the  physicians  of  the  city  arose  to  a  clamor 
that  the  City  Council  promised  to  aid  in  furnish- 
ing and  equipping  it  in  the  interest  of  the  city's 
poor.  This  step  was  finally  taken  by  them  in 
1867,  since  which  time  its  wards  have  been  filled 
by  those  deserving  such  attention. 

"Bobbs'  Medical  Library  was  the  result  of  a 
gift  of  $5,000,  bequeathed  by  the  late  Prof.  J.  S. 
Bobbs,  M.D.,  to  the  Indiana  Medical  College, 
whose  trustees  relinguished  their  right  to  the 
same,  and  by  mutual  agreement  with  Mrs.  J.  S. 
Bobbs,  the  executrix  of  the  doctor's  estate,  it  was 
given  to  a  board  of  directors  who  were  to  estab- 
lish a  library  bearing  the  above  title.  Said  board 
was  composed  as  follows:  G.  W.  Mears,  M.D., 
T.  B.  Harvey,  M.D.,  J.  A.  Comingor,  M.D., 
Wm.  B.  Fletcher,  M.D.,  Thad.  M.  Stevens,  M.D., 
R.  N".  Todd,  M.D.,  Simon  Yandes,  Esq. 


MEDICAL    EIHTORY    OF    INDIANA.  73 

"This  board  held  its  first  meeting  for  the  pur- 
pose of  organization  March,  1873,  when  the  fol- 
lowing officers  were  elected :  G.  W.  Mears,  M.D., 
president;  T.  B.  Harvey,  M.D.,  vice-president; 
J.  A.  Comingor,  secretary;  Thad.  M.  Stevens, 
M.D.  librarian  and  treasurer. 

MEDICAL    SOCIETIES. 

"In  1845  or  1846  the  physicians  of  Indianap- 
olis organized  what  was  called  the  Marion  Coun- 
ty Medical  Society,  the  first  local  medical  or- 
ganization had  in  this  city.  We  do  not  know 
all  the  membership.  Drs.  Sanders,  Mears,  Bobbs, 
Jameson,  Dunlap,  Gall,  Bullard,  Parry,  Gaston 
and  Andrew  Hunt  were  among  the  first;  after- 
ward Woodbum,  Thompson,  Funkhouser  and 
others  were  added.  Various  physicians  through- 
out the  county  of  Marion  also  belonged.  This 
society  had  for  its  officers  Dr.  Sanders,  presi- 
dent; Dr.  Bobbs  and  Dr.  Hunt,  secretary  and 
assistant,  Dr.  Mears  was  the  second  president."* 


*  Dr.  Stevens  commits  several  errors  in  the  above  para- 
graph. The  Society  was  not  organized  "in  1845  of  1846," 
but  in  1848.  It  was  not  called  the  "Marion  County  Medical 
Society,"  but  was  named  "The  Indianapolis  Medical 
Society."  Since  the  above  appeared  in  the  Journal,  my 
friend.  Dr.  Allen  Pierson,  of  Spencer,  has  sent  me  a  copy 
of  the  By-laws  and  Constitution  of  the  Society.  The  title 
page  reads  as  follows  :  "Constitution  and  By-laws  of  the 
Indianapolis  Medical  Society,  adopted  Feb.  26,  1848."  The 
officers  for  that  year  were :  President,  John  H.  Sanders ; 
Vice-Pres.,  Livingston  Dunlap  ;  Sec'y.,  John  S.  Bobbs  ;  Cor. 
Sec'y.,  Talbott  Bullard ;  Treas.,  John  L.  Mothershead ; 
Censors,  George  W.  Mears.  Charles  Parry  and  Livingston 
Dunlap.  Members  :  David  Funkhouser,  John  Nutt,  H.  V.  V. 
Johnson,  John  Pleasants,  James  S.  Harrison,  John  Evans, 
A.  D.  Gall,  William  R.  Smith,  R.  G.  Graydon,  John  M. 
Gaston,  A.  G.  Ruddell,  Isaac  Meranda  and  William  Clinton 
Thompson.  This  is  the  society  that  issued  the  call  for  a 
State  Medical  Convention  in  1849. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


74  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Note. — In  the  Transactions  for  1874,  Dr.  Alfred  Patton. 
of  Vincennes,  states  that  the  first  medical  society  organized 
In  Vincennes  was  under  a  charter  granted  by  the  State 
Legislature  in  the  year  183.5,  page  10.  Dr.  Ezra  Read,  of 
Terre  Haute,  says  this  society  was  organized  in  1817,  page 
5fi.  Dr.  Patton  later  acknowledged  that  he  was  mistaken 
and  admitted  that  Dr.  Read  was  correct.  See  Transactions 
for  1875,  page  82.— G.  W.  IT.  K. 


CHAPTEPt  X. 


Early  Medical  History  of  Push  County. — 

Dr.  H.  G.  Sextox. — Dr.  J.  M.  Howland. 

Dr.    William    B.    Frame. — Fifth 

Medical  District  Society. — 

Dr.    W.    H.    Martin. 

In  the  Transactions  for  1874,  beginning  at 
page  63,  Drs.  W.  A.  Pugh,  Marshall  Sexton  and 
John  Moffett  have  furnished  biographies  of  sev- 
eral of  the  early  physicians  of  Rush  County  and 
adjoining  localities.  They  are  of  sufficient  his- 
torical interest  for  a  reproduction  at  this  place. 
Dr.  Pugh  writes : 

"The  first  pioneer  physician  in  southeastern 
Indiana  of  whom  we  have  any  direct  knowledge 
is  Dr.  Wm.  B.  Laughlin,  who  was  born  in  Wash- 
ington County,  Pennsylvania.  He  finished  his 
classical  education  and  graduated  at  Jefferson 
College,  Canonsburg,  Pa.,  after  his  third  son  was 
large  enough  to  accompany  him  to  the  college  on 
horseback.  After  his  collegiate  course  he  en- 
tered upon  the  study  of  medicine,  on  completion 
of  which  he  removed  to  Kentucky  and  entered 
the  active  duties  of  his  profession.  In  1815, 
three  years  after  his  location  in  Kentucky,  he 
again  emigrated  to  the  Northwest  Territory, 
settling  in  Brookville,  Franklin  County,  Indi- 
ana. During  his  sojourn  at  this  place,  besides 
attending  to  the  medical  wants  of  the  then 
sparsely  settled  wilderness,  he  entered  the  em- 


76  MEDICAL   HISTORY   OF  INDIANA. 

ploy  of  the  government  as  s"urve5^or  for  four  or 
five  3^ears.  He  assisted  in  the  survey  of  nine 
congressional  townships  around  Indianapolis, 
eight  around  Noblesville,  eight  around  Muncie, 
and  eight  around  Anderson.  While  a  citizen  of 
Brookville  he  was  elected  circwt  judge,  and 
served  in  that  capacity  for  a  number  of  years. 
After  the  formation  of  Franklin  County,  he  was 
elected  to  the  state  legislature  and  was  on  the 
committee  which  laid  off  the  counties  of  the 
'new  purchase,'  the  body  at  that  time  holding 
its  sessions  in  Cor3^don,  Ind.  He  started  the 
first  classical  school  in  eastern  Indiana,  at  Brook- 
ville, on  his  own  responsibility,  and  had  the 
honor  of  turning  out  of  its  walls  three  governors 
of  the  state,  viz. :  Noble,  Wallace,  and  Eay.  Many 
of  the  prominent  lawyers  of  that  day  also  were 
his  pupils — 0.  H.  Smith,  James  Eariden,  etc. 
In  the  year  1820  he  came  into  Eush  County  and 
laid  off  and  located  the  town  of  Eushville,  nam- 
ing the  county  and  town  after  old  Dr.  Eush,  of 
Philadelphia,  with  whom  he  was  on  intimate 
terms  of  friendship.  He  and  Dr.  Sexton  formed 
a  partnership  in  medicine  about  the  year  1822 
for  a  term  of  years.  I  think  he  was  without 
doubt  the  first  physician  worthy  of  the  name 
who  pitched  his  tent  in  this  part  of  Indiana. 
He  erected  at  his  own  expense  a  seminary  in  the 
young  town  and  taught  in  it  a  select  school,  giv- 
ing instruction  in  the  ancient  languages  and 
higher  mathematics. 

"Dr.  Laughlin  was  a  man  of  versatile  talent, 
and  was  endowed  by  Nature  with  indomitable 
energy  and  perseverance.    He  was  a  man  of  true 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    Ob'    INDIANA.  77 

metal.  In  addition  to  his  scholastic  attainments, 
lie  was  faithful  to  obey  the  injunction,  *Be  ye 
fruitful,  multiply  and  replenish  the  earth.'  He 
was  the  honored  father  of  eighteen  children  by 
one  wife.  He  was  a  man  of  piety,  and  was  one 
of  six  to  establish  the  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Rushville,  Ind.,  in  1825.  It  may  be  said  of  Dr. 
Laughlin  that  it  was  to  his  standing  and  infla- 
ence  that  the  science  of  medicine  was  put  upon 
a  broad  and  a  high  basis  in  the  new  state  in 
which  he  settled  and  with  whose  early  history 
he  was  so  closely  identified.  Died  in  1836,  aged 
66  years." 

H.   G.    SEXTOX. 

"Prominent  among  the  physicians  of  that  early 
day  was  my  old  friend  and  preceptor.  Dr.  H.  G. 
Sexton.  He  was  present  at  the  birth  of  the  wri- 
ter of  these  sketches,  and  through  childhood, 
youth  and  manhood  was  his  adviser  and  instruc- 
tor; for  many  years  a  member  of  his  Sunday 
school  class;  afterward  a  correspondent  through 
college  life  and  an  instructor  in  my  profession, 
it  was  my  privilege,  as  it  was  my  pleasure,  to 
know  much  of  his  character. 

"Dr.  Sexton  was  the  pupil  of  the  late  Dr. 
Cruikshank,  of  Harrison,  Ohio ;  was  a  New  Eng- 
lander  by  birth,  and  came  west  when  he  was 
quite  a  young  man,  in  the  capacity  of  a  teacher, 
to  hew  out  his  own  fortunes.  About  the  year 
1820  he  went  to  the  little  village  of  Springboro, 
in  Warren  County,  Ohio,  to  commence  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine,  his  stock  in  trade  being  an  old 
and  sparsely  filled  pair  of  pill  bags,  an  Indian 


78  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

pony,  and  50  cents  in  money.  On  arriving  at 
the  place,  he  put  np  at  an  inn  kept  by  Job  Pugh. 
He  honestly  told  the  landlord  who  he  was,  what 
was  his  business,  and  the  financial  situation;  he 
had  to  eat  and  he  had  to  sleep,  and  if  he  could 
stay  with  him  on  these  statements  he  would  like 
to  do  so.  The  old  Quaker,  with  his  kindly  wife, 
Sarah,  admitted  him  to  their  household.  That 
same  old  Quaker  had  a  comely  and  benign-look- 
ing sister,  Hannah,  and  it  was  not  long  before 
she  had  won  the  heart  and  affections  of  the 
young  doctor,  and  not  many  months  before  they 
were  united  in  wedlock.  This  was  the  most  im- 
portant, as  it  was  the  happiest,  event  in  his  life, 
for  in  her  he  secured  one  of  the  most  amiable, 
even-tempered  and  lovable  women  that  ever  a 
man  led  to  Hymen's  altar,  and  much  of  the 
Doctor's  success,  in  after  life,  must  be  attributed 
to  the  self-sacrificing,  self-denying  and  patient 
qualities  of  his  wife. 

"About  the  year  1822  Dr.  Sexton,  with  two 
of  the  brothers  Pugh  and  their  families,  re- 
moved to  Eushville,  Ind.  The  town  was  just 
laid  out.  The  county  was  one  vast  slush  of 
mud  and  swamps.  The  land  was  densely  covered 
with  heavy  timber,  with  an  undergrowth  of 
spice-wood,  hickory  and  hazel  bushes.  There 
were  no  roads  but  those  which  had  been  rudely 
cut  out  of  the  underbrush,  and  no  guide-boards 
but  1  he  blazes  upon  the  trees.  Here  he  pitched 
his  lent,  and  there  he  labored  and  worked  until 
the  day  of  his  death,  in  June,  1865.  ¥o  man 
was  more  devoted  to  his  profession,  in  all  its 
interests,  than  Dr.  Sexton;  to  it  all  other  things 


MEDICAL    HLrWh'Y    OF    INDIANA.  79 

rnust  bend  and  all  other  circumstances  must 
yield.  He  was  possessed  of  a  vast  fund  of  ex- 
perience^ having  been  in  active  practice  for  more 
than  forty  years,  and  it  being  his  delight  to  talk 
about  his  professional  experience,  made  him  one 
of  the  most  companionable  of  men  to  his  pro- 
fessional confreres.  In  the  department  of  ob- 
stetrics he  was  particularly  rich  in  experience  of 
facts  and  practical  results.  It  was  his  fortune 
to  enjoy  a  larger  experience  in  this  field  of  his 
profession  than  any  man  of  his  day  in  southeast- 
ern Indiana,  and  as  a  consequence  he  excelled  in 
the  midwifiery  art. 

"During  the  early  years  of  his  life  his  prac- 
tice extended  out  from  his  home  in  a  radius  of 
twenty  miles,  which,  of  course,  made  his  busi- 
ness laborious,  requiring  great  industr}-,  endur- 
ance and  perseverance  to  undergo  the  work. 
These  industrious  habits  formed  in  his  youth 
followed  him  through  life.  Unlike  many  pro- 
fessional men  who  have  gained  reputation  and 
wealth,  he  grew  more  studious  and  up  to  within 
a  few  weeks  of  his  death  he  might  have  been 
seen  busily  employed  at  his  professional  duties. 
His  age  did  not  in  the  least  lessen  his  industry. 
I  have  often  heard  him  say,  ^I  can  not  live  and 
do  nothing.'  No  man  had  more  professional 
friends  than  he,  and  no  man  was  more  jealous 
of  his  professional  honor.  He  had  no  patience 
with  any  other  than  a  manly,  dignified  and 
straight-forward  course  in  professional  life.  He 
was  possessed  of  a  vast  fund  of  anecdotes,  inci- 
dents and  amusing  circumstances,  v/hich  had 
transpired  all  along  the  pathway  of  his  profes- 


80  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

sional  career,  and  upon  proper  occasions  would 
relate  them  with  much  gleesome  humor.  Seem- 
ingly cool  and  free  from  impulse  or  sentiment, 
he  was  a  man  of  deep  feeling  and  tender  affec- 
tions; benevolent  in  a  quiet  way,  which  was 
largely  expended  in  his  attention  upon  the  poor 
whom  he  considered  worthy  of  help.  For  a 
period  of  45  years  he  was  an  integral  part  of  the 
community  in  which  he  lived.  As  a  citizen,  he 
was  on  the  side  of  progress.  All  public  enter- 
prises had  his  sanction,  support  and  influence. 
He  joined  the  Presbyterian  Church  at  Eushville, 
Ind.,  the  next  day  after  it  was  organized,  in 
1825,  and  was,  throughout  his  life,  one  of  its 
mainstays  and  supports;  was  a  devoted  and 
faithful  Sunday  school  teacher,  rarely  absent 
from  his  post  during  a  period  of  30  years.  In 
June,  1865,  he  was  gathered  home  as  a  shock  of 
corn  fully  ripe.  He  left  the  record  of  a  well- 
spent  life;  an  example  of  industry  and  devotion 
to  the  place  he  chose  to  fill  in  his  worldly  pil- 
grimage." 

J.    M.    HOWLAND. 

(By  M.  Sexton,  M.D.,  Rushville,  Ind.) 

"Dr.  Howland  was  a  native  of  Baltimore,  Md. 
Born  Dec.  22,  1792,  and  died  in  Brookville, 
Ind.,  Jan.  11,  1858.  He  received  his  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  from  the  University  of 
Maryland  in  1819,  and  practiced  "his  profession 
for  two  years  in  the  Shenandoah  Valley,  Vir- 
ginia, when  ample  opportunities  were  afforded 
for  the  study  of  the  various  forms  of  malarial 
disease.  From  this  time  until  his  removal  to 
Indiana  in  1833,  he  was  engaged  in  the  active 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IX DIANA.  81 

pursuit  of  his  profession  in  the  city  of  Balti- 
more. During  this  period  the  cholera  made  its 
first  visit  to  that  city.  In  this  epidemic,  Dr. 
Rowland  acquired  quite  a  reputation  for  its  suc- 
cessful treatment  in  private  practice,  and  also 
as  physician  in  charge  of  a  cholera  hospital  im- 
provised for  the  occasion. 

"Dr.  Howland  was  a  gentleman  of  culture, 
and  in  his  native  city  acquired  distinction  as  a 
writer  as  well  as  physician.  He  w^as  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  religious  publications  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  as  well  as  an  able 
advocate  with  his  tongue  and  pen  of  every  great 
moral  enterprise.  He  became  somewhat  noted 
for  his  advocacy,  also,  of  various  public  im- 
provements, and  after  his  removal  west  made  a 
f^trong  impression,  wherever  he  was  heard,  by  his 
accurate  knowledge  and  earnestness  on  the  sub- 
ject of  railroads.  During  the  years  1834  and 
1835  he  sustained  himself  nobly  in  favor  of  rail- 
roads against  canals. 

"Dr.  Howland  was  for  many  years  in  the  habit 
of  occasional  preaching.  As  a  public  orator  he 
was  remarkable  for  his  logical  force,  and  the  S3'-s- 
tematic  presentation  of  facts,  relying  but  little 
upon  the  imagination  with  which  to  take  the 
fancy  of  his  hearing  ^prisoners.' 

"From  the  midst  of  a  host  of  professional 
friends,  and  while  occupying  an  enviable  posi- 
tion as  a  leading  physician  in  a  great  maritime 
city,  a  leader  in  its  polemics  and  a  molder  of  its 
morals,  he  looked  eagerly  to  the  west  for  a  field 
in  which  to  attain  greater  usefulness  and,  of 
course,  distinction. 


82  MEDICAL    HI8T0EY    OF    lyDIANA. 

"Eemoving  west  in  1833,  he  first  took  ^regular 
work'  as  a  minister  of  the  gospel.  It  was  in  the 
capacity  of  a  physician  that  we  first  knew  him. 
He  brought  to  bear  in  the  practice  of  medicine 
the  same  qualities  of  mind  which  distinguished 
him  as  a  writer  and  speaker.  Quick  powers  of 
observation,  a  thorough  analysis  of  his  cases, 
with  a  careful  interpretation  of  their  symptoms, 
made  him  precise  and  thorough  as  a  diagnosti- 
cian. He  never  guessed.  He  reached  conclu- 
sions in  medicine  by  as  thorough  a  process  of 
reasoning  as  could  be  brought  to  bear  in  deter- 
mining a  proposition  in  mathematics;  hence  he 
seldom  made  mistakes.  His  very  precision  and 
studied,  careful  manner,  with  the  full,  dignified 
bearing,  which  conscious  ability  inspires,  did 
not  serve  to  make  him  popular  with  the  people. 
He  was  an  earnest  advocate  of  the  highest  code 
of  medical  morals,  and  scorned  to  resort  to  tricks 
by  which  less  able  men  attained  popularity  and 
wealth.  "Wrhile  the  qualities  of  his  mind  and 
manners,  as  we  have  stated,  did  not  make  him 
popular,  they  were  the  very  qualities  which  made 
him 'eminent  among  his  fellowo.  His  counsel 
was  sought  for,  and  his  advice  followed  by  the 
younger  members  of  his  profession,  as  that  of  an 
oracle.  He  died  greatly  beloved  and  respected 
by  those  who  appreciated  him,  leaving  behind 
him  descendants  eminent  in  the  field  of  letters 
and  law." 

WM.    B.    FRAME. 

"Among  the  early  medical  men  of  eastern  In- 
diana, Dr.  Frame  stood  deservedly  high.  En- 
dowed with  great  natural  ability,  he  had  the  ad- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    JXIJ/AXA.  H3 

vantage  of  many  of  his  confreres  in  a  thorough 
classical  education.  A  native  of  Xorfolk,  Va., 
he  removed  in  his  youth  to  Lexington,  Ky. ; 
studied  his  profession  with  Dr.  Toliver,  of  Paris, 
Ky.,  afterward  of  Cincinnati;  attended  lectures 
and  took  his  medical  degree  at  Transylvania 
University,  Lexington^  Ky.  Dr.  Frame,  in  1827, 
selected  Eushville,  Ind.,  as  his  future  home, 
finding  in  our  large  Kentucky  population  con- 
genial associations,  which  lasted  through  life. 
He  immediately  entered  upon  a  lucrative  prac- 
tice. To  his  native  talents  and  finished  educa- 
tion he  also  added  great  energy.  With  such  ele- 
ments, success  was  assured  from  the  first.  He 
married  in  1832,  thus  adding  another  tie  to  the 
bonds  which  held  him  to  the  people  of  the  county. 
Dr.  Frame,  unfortunately,  was  not  endowed  with 
a  physical  constitution  proportionate  to  his  men- 
tal ability.  The  rigors  of  the  climate  often  over- 
powered him  and  he  would  be  prostrated  with 
diseases,  the  unavoidable  result  of  exposure  in 
his  practice. 

"By  reason  of  the  early  advantages  possessed 
by  Dr.  Frame,  as  was  stated,  his  success  was  as- 
sured from  the  beginning,  and  he  at  once  as- 
sumed a  high  position  as  a  medical  man,  which 
he  maintained  until  his  death,  in  1849.  As  he 
was  Virginian  born  and  Kentucky  bred,  he  had 
a  full  share  of  that  pride  of  character  which  ac- 
companies good  blood  and  good  breeding.  He 
was,  as  might  be  expected,  a  strict,  conscientious 
man  in  professional  morals,  living  himself  up  to 
the  highest  letter  of  the  code.  He  demanded  and 
commanded  that  respect  from  others  which  he 


84  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

generously  extended  to  all  honorable  men  in  the 
same  profession.  Though  dead  now  many  years, 
his  name  is  fresh  in  the  memories  of  his  asso- 
ciates and  a  large  circle  of  patrons  and  friends." 

FIFTH   MEDICAL   DISTRICT    SOCIETY. 

"The  first  medical  society  in  the  eastern  part 
of  Indiana  was  known  as  the  Fifth  Medical 
district  Society.  This  was  organized  under 
the  law  of  the  state,  we  believe,  which  pro- 
vided for  societies  throughout  the  state,  in  num- 
bers equal  to  the  congressional  districts,  perhaps, 
and  with  the  same  territory.  To  these  societies 
was  granted  the  privileges  of  issuing  licenses, 
etc.,  though  no  law  gave  their  membership  any 
exclusive  right  to  practice  medicine.  No  record 
of  the  Fifth  Medical  District  Society  is  known 
to  be  in  existence,  and  but  few  of  the  original 
members  survive.  In  the  list  of  this  membership 
we  recollect  as  familiar  names  Drs.  Moffatt  and 
Brown  of  Connersville,  Dr.  Everett  of  Union 
County,  Dr.  Hamon  of  Burkville,  Dr.  Helm  of 
Eush  County,  Drs.  William  B.  Laughlin,  H.  G. 
Sexton  and  Wm.  B.  Frame  of  Eushville.  These 
are  but  a  few  of  the  early  pioneer  physicians. 

"This  society  lived  for  several  years,  holding 
semi-annual  sessions  of  two  days  each,  exerting 
a  vast  deal  of  good  influence  in  the  enlighten- 
ment of  its  members,  and  wielding  a  great  power 
in  the  community  for  the  prevention  of  irregular 
medicine.  We  do  not  hesitate  to  attribute  to  the 
early  teaching  and  example  of  these  pioneer 
physicians  much  of  the  respect  and  confidence 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF    INDIANA.  85 

with  which  the  profession  in  this  part  of  Indiana 
meets  at  the  present  day.  Eegular  medicine  had 
then  to  compete  with  the  Thompsonian  system, 
and,  under  the  fostering  care  of  the  men  named, 
grew  steadily  in  the  esteem  of  the  people,  while 
the  high-pressure  doctors  were  compelled  to  seek 
unoccupied  fields  farther  west.  As  might  be  ex- 
pected, forty  years  ago  the  profession  was  not 
tilled  with  learned  men,  i.  e.,  men  familiar  with 
all  the  teachings  of  the  schools,  but  earnest,  ob- 
servant men,  fruitful  in  expedient,  and,  from 
necessity  in  many  cases,  self-restraint,  they 
founded  a  corps  of  practitioners  entitled,  for  their 
wonderful  success  under  adverse  circumstances, 
to  our  profound  respect.  This  society  grew  so 
strong  with  the  people  that  a  connection  with  it 
was  necessary  to  the  success  of  a  stranger  who 
came  asking  support  as  a  physician,  and  to  this 
day  it  is  expected  by  this  community  that  their 
physicians  shall  be  members  of  a  ^healthy  medi- 
cal organization.'  As  before  said,  we  attribute 
this  healthy  public  opinion  to  the  impressions 
made  by  our  pioneer  society  and  pioneer  physi- 
cians of  40  and  50  years  ago.  We  regret  that 
we  have  no  fuller  data  from  which  to  speak  of 
this  association  and  its  membership.  It  ceased 
to  exist,  from  causes  not  now  known,  about  1838. 
"The  second  medical  society  in  which  we  feel 
any  immediate  interest  was  instituted  in  Rush- 
ville,  Ind.,  as  a  county  society  in  1847  or  '48. 
It  included  in  its  organization  Drs.  Frame,  Mar- 
tin, H.  G.  Sexton,  M.  Sexton,  Jeff.  Helm,  J.  M. 
Ilowland,  Wm.  Braden,  Clifford,  E.  T.  EusselJ, 


86  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Tompkins,  and  others  not  now  remembered.  It 
adopted  as  its  code  of  medical  morals  the  Code 
of  Ethics  just  published  by  the  National  Medi- 
cal Association,  and  elected  for  its  first  president 
Dr.  How]  and.  This  society,  we  regret  to  say, 
was  short  lived.  It  attempted  to  do  too  much. 
It  wished  to  make  (under  the  advice  of  some 
members  who  had  no  axes  to  grind)  physicians 
and  members  out  of  all  who  practiced,  or  wished 
to  practice,  and  who  could  only  do  so  with  the 
endorsement  which  such  a  society  could  give. 
Under  this  arrangement,  almost  every  one  was 
admitted  to  membership,  and  a  kind  of  license 
to  practice  was  given  to  all  who  asked.  Of 
course,  a  society  thus  organized,  having  within 
itself  the  elements  of  its  own  destruction,  could 
not  live  long.  Those  really  interested  in  the 
progress  of  medicine  did  not  feel  honored  by  the 
indiscriminate  manner  of  admitting  members, 
and  when  they  withheld  their  support  the  society 
died  of  its  own  weight. 

"Of  our  last  society — ^Eush  Medical  Society' 
— organized  June,  1856,  and  running  a  success- 
ful career  until  1862,  when  its  records  were  de- 
stroyed by  fire,  and  reorganized  the  same  year 
with  a  more  select  membership,  it  does  not  be- 
come us  to  speak.  It  is  proper  to  say,  however, 
that  it  is  clean  in  its  membership,  scrupulously 
adherent  to  the  Principles  of  Ethics,  and,  in  its 
modest  way,  doing  what  it  can  for  the  advance- 
ment of  its  members  in  knowledge  of  practical 
medicine." 


MEDICAL    HISTORY   OF   JX/JfA.XA.  87 

WM.   H.   MARTIX. 
(By  John  MofPett,  M.D.,  Rushville,  Ind.; 

"Dr.  Wm.  H.  Martin  was  a  native  of  Phila- 
delphia, Pa.  When  quite  young  his  father  came 
west  and  found  a  resting  place  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  where  he  pursued  his  original  avocation, 
that  of  a  wholesale  merchant.  Therefore,  young 
Martin's  first  impressions  as  to  business  pursuits 
were  those  of  a  mercantile  character,  furnishing 
to  his  cast  of  mind  but  little  attraction.  As  if 
still  further  to  estrange  him  from  the  objects  of 
his  father's  chief  delight,  at  the  period  when  it 
became  necessary  for  the  determination  of  the 
choice  of  an  occupation,  his  father  died,  leaving 
the  son  nothing  to  rely  on  but  his  native  powers. 
After  an  ineffectual  essay  in  business,  he  was  led 
to  adopt  the  profession  of  medicine  as  the  call- 
ing best  suited  to  his  tastes  and  aptitudes.  Hav- 
ing enjoyed  the  advantages  of  a  fair  literary 
preparation,  he  placed  himself  under  the  direc- 
tion of  Dr.  John  L.  Vattier,  of  Cincinnati,  as 
his  preceptor.  For  nearly  two  years  he  pursued 
his  studies  with  a  zeal  and  assiduity  equaled  only 
to  his  pressing  necessities.  Late  in  the  year 
1833  he  made  a  visit  to  Eushville,  Ind.,  where 
an  aunt  was  residing.  He  was  induced  through 
her  encouragement  to  make  an  effort  to  estab- 
lish himself  in  the  place  in  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine. Through,  the  personal  influence  of  his 
aunt  and  her  husband.  Dr.  H.  G.  Sexton  gave 
him  the  rare  advantage  of  forming  a  partner- 
ship, which  soon  gave  him  ample  opportunity 
for  a  very  general  acquaintance  with  the  people 
of  the  county,  besides  the  ripened  experience  of 


88  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

an  association  of  an  extensive  practice.  In  a 
professional  point  of  view,  this  proved  to  be  a 
lifelong  advantage.  At  the  close  of  the  second 
year  of  this  association  in  business  a  mutual 
separation  was  concluded.  Now  he  opened  an 
office  and  began  the  successful  prosecution  of 
his  profession,  which  he  continued  with  the  usual 
difficulties,  reverses  and  successes  until  the  year 
1855,  when,  in  the  spring  of  that  year,  he  re- 
moved to  Jasper  County,  Indiana,  near  the 
county  seat.  Having  located  on  a  farm,  enjoy- 
ing the  delights  of  agriculture  and  quietude,  he 
spent  the  remaining  number  of  his  days,  which 
were  ended  June  15,  1871. 

"So  ended  a  life  filled  with  hopes  and  fears, 
joys  and  sorrows,  that  it  might  be  truthfully 
said  the  cup  of  bitter  and  sweet  equiposed  each 
other.  As  a  man  he  was  eminently  social, 
fluent  and  entertaining  in  conversation,  truly 
polite,  accommodating  and  obliging  as  a  neigh- 
bor and  friend,  indulgent  to  his  children,  ever 
watching  for  the  welfare  of  his  family.  He  as- 
pired to  distinction  as  a  citizen,  and  served  in 
the  lower  house  of  the  legislature  as  clerk  dur- 
ing the  session  of  1838.  He  held  places  of  honor 
and  responsibility  in  the  Fifth  Medical  District 
Society,  such  as  president  and  censor,  and,  in 
brief,  maintained  a  respectable  standing  in  the 
profession  by  his  attainments  and  uniform  cour- 
tesy  of  conduct  in  his  intercourse  with  his  medi- 
cal brethren." 


CHAPTER  XI. 


Early      Medical      History      of      Delaware 

County. — Reminiscences  of  Hancock 

County. — Early  Medical  History 

OF  Noble  County^. 

(By   G.   W.   H.    Kemper,    M.D.) 

Dr.  Dickinson  Burt  was  the  first  physician  to 
locate  in  Delaware  County  after  its  organization 
in  1827.*  The  exact  date  of  his  location  in 
Muncietown  is  not  known — it  was  prior  to  1829, 
for  the  official  records  show  that,  in  addition  to 
his  medical  duties,  he  was  our  second  postmaster 
— his  commission  bearing  date  Aug.  29,  1829. 
The  postoffice  was  at  his  home  on  the  west  side 
of  Mulberry  Street,  near  Gilbert  Street. 

The  number  of  physicians  multiplied  as  the 
population  increased,  so  that  the  medical  and 
surgical  wants  of  the  early  pioneers  were  not 
neglected.  These  men  were  subjected  to  numer- 
ous hardships — riding  on  horseback,  over  mud 
roads,  or  along  by-paths  long  distances  by  day 
and  by  night.  These  rides  were  made  in  all 
kinds  of  weather — beneath  the  piercing  rays  of 
a  summer  sun,  in  zero  weather,  or  through 
drenching  rains. 


*  Four  hundred  and  thirty-six  physicians  have  located 
in  Delaware  County  during  the  first  eighty  years  of  its 
existence. 


90  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

"This  undecorated  soldier,  of  a  hard,  unequal  strife. 
Fought  in  many  stubborn  battles  with  the  foes  that 

sought  his  life. 
In  the  night-time  or  the  day-time,  he  would  rally  brave 

and  well. 
Though    the    summer   lark   was   fifing,    or    the    frozen 

lances  fell; 
Knowing  if  he  won  the  battle  they  would  praise  their 

Maker's  name, 
Knowing  if  he  lost  the  battle  then  the  doctor  was  to 

blame. 
'Twas  the  brave  old  virtuous  doctor, 
'Twas  the  good  old  faulty  doctor, 

'Twas  the  faithful  country  doctor — fighting  stoutly  all 
the  same."  — Carleton. 

The  author  of  this  paper  located  in  Muneie 
Aug.  18,  1865,  and  I  esteem  it  an  honor  to  have 
known  personally  a  large  number  of  the  physi- 
cians of  this  county.  The  physicians  whom  I 
met  at  the  time  above  indicated  were  men  of 
good  attainments  and  ripe  experience — a  major- 
ity of  them  were  elderly  men,  not  only  those  lo- 
cated in  Muneie,  but  those  residing  at  other 
points  in  the  county. 

All  physicians  at  that  time  were  making  coun- 
try calls  on  horseback — a  few  only  were  using 
buggies  or  carts  in  the  summer  season  while  the 
roads  were  in  better  condition.  I  made  my 
country  calls  invariably  on  horseback  during  the 
first  three  years  of  my  practice,  and  also  a  part 
of  the  time  for  several  years  later.  As  the  roads 
were  improved,  vehicles  became  more  common, 
until  gradually  the  doctor  with  saddle-bags 
merged  into  the  physician  riding  in  a  phaeton, 
and  still  later,  as  at  the  present  day,  in  an  auto- 
mobile— a  veritable  evolution  as  I  have  witnessed 
from  equestrianism  to  electricity  and  gasoline ! 


MEDICAL    IILSTOJn'    OF    T\ DIANA.  01 

The  physicians  who  practice  in  Delaware 
County  to-day  and  ride  along  its  roads  and 
streets  in  buggies  can  little  appreciate  the  hard- 
ships that  these  early  practitioners  endured  be- 
fore our  gravel  roads  were  made.  Visits  made 
on  errands  of  mercy  were  often  accompanied  with 
peril,  as  it  was  no  uncommon  thing  for  the  horse 
to  mire  in  creeks  and  swamps.  A  thrilling  ex- 
perience in  this  line  lingers  in  the  memory  of  the 
writer.  The  hardships  these  men  endured  told 
upon  their  physical  strength. 

The  various  preparations  of  medicines  have 
markedly  improved  during  the  past  half-century, 
or  even  a  quarter  of  a  century.  Concentrated 
medicines  as  fluid  extracts,  specific  tinctures, 
tablets,  etc.,  enable  us  to  carry  a  large  list  of 
remedies  in  a  small  space,  which  is  a  great  im- 
provement over  the  cumbersome  saddle-bags  re- 
quired in  former  days  to  carry  roots  and  leaves 
for  the  preparation  of  infusions  and  decoctions. 

Many  of  our  valuable  instruments  in  common 
use  at  the  present  day  were  but  little  known  or 
unused  fifty  years  ago.  About  the  3'ear  1866  1 
bought  a  hypodermic  syringe,  which  I  believe 
was  the  first  one  to  be  used  in  Delaware  County. 
I  think  Dr.  Eobert  Winton  owned  the  first  fever 
thermometer  in  this  county.  Two  were  then 
thought  to  be  necessary — one  for  the  mouth  and 
a  curved  one  for  the  axilla.  JSTeither  of  these 
were  self-registering,  and  it  was  necessary  to 
read  them  while  in  situ.  These  useful  but  crude 
instruments  soon  gave  way  to  the  neater  ther- 
mometer, so  accurate  and  essential  at  the  present 
dav. 


92  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

COUNTY  MEDICAL  SOCIETY. 

The  first  practical  steps  toward  organizing  a 
medical  society  in  Delaware  County  were  taken 
on  April  18,  1865,  when  some  of  the  physicians 
of  the  county  met  in  Walling's  Hall  (west  side 
of  public  square),  in  the  city  of  Muncie,  to  take 
preliminary  steps  for  the  formation  of  a  perma- 
nent society.  At  that  meeting  Dr.  S.  V.  Jump 
occupied  the  chair,  and  Dr.  N.  W.  Black  was 
chosen  secretary.  A  committee  was  then  ap- 
pointed, composed  of  Drs.  Morgan,  Winton  and 
Craig,  on  permanent  organization.  The  adjourn- 
ment was  until  Monday,  the  first  day  of  May, 
following,  when  the  meeting  convened  in  Dr. 
AVinton's  office,  112  West  Adams  Street.  The 
physicians  present  were  Drs.  Armitage,  Black, 
Craig,  Hoover,  Lewellen,  Morgan,  Skiff, 
Wheeler,  Willard,  Winton,  W.  H.  Williams,  and 
J.  A.  Williams.  At  this  meeting  the  committee 
on  permanent  organization  made  a  report  and 
the  plan  of  organization  was  read  by  sections, 
discussed,  and  adopted.  The  committee  was  con- 
tinued, and  empowered  to  revise  the  constitution 
and  by-laws,  and  have  the  same  published.  Un- 
der this  organization  the  following-named  officers 
Avere  chosen:  President,  Dr.  S.  V.  Jump;  vice- 
president.  Dr.  W.  J.  Morgan;  secretary.  Dr.  N. 
W.  Black;  treasurer,  Dr.  William  Craig;  cen- 
sors, Drs.  Eobert  Winton,  W.  C.  Willard  and  J. 
H.  Powers. 

At  a  meeting  held  June  5,  1865,  Drs.  L.  J. 
Bonnels,  J.  C.  Helm,  S.  E.  Mitchell  and  H.  C. 
Winans  were  admitted  to  membership.  At  a 
meeting  held  July  3,   1865,   Dr.   Henry   Kirby 


MEDICAL    HIHTOJtY    OF    IXDIAXA.  'Xi 

was  admitted,  and  at  a  meeting  held  in  Septem- 
ber, 1865,  Drs.  W.  J.  Andrews  and  G.  W.  H. 
Kemper  were  admitted  to  membership. 

The  Delaware  County  Medical  Society  has 
be"en  reorganized  several  times  since  its  first  or- 
ganization, in  order  to  conform  to  the  require- 
ments of  the  State  Medical  Association,  but  the 
society  has  never  failed  to  exist,  and  the  present 
one  is  virtually  a  continuation  of  the  original 
society.  So  far  as  the  author  can  ascertain,  Dr. 
W.  J.  Andrews,  of  Newark,  K.  J.,  and  Dr.  G.  W. 
H.  Kemper,  of  Muncie,  are  the  only  persons  liv- 
ing who  became  members  in  I860. 

The  record  of  the  physicians  of  Delaware 
County  has  been  a  creditable  one;  few  moral 
delinquencies  have  existed.  They  have  been  in- 
dustrious, as  shown  by  the  numerous  contribu- 
tions to  medical  literature  contributed  by  our 
citizen  physicians.  Our  death  rate  has  not  been 
excessive;  our  health  officers  have  been  compe- 
tent, and  our  surgeons  have  successfully  per- 
formed, nearly  all  the  operations  known  to  sur- 
gery. 

Dr.  Dickinson  Burt  (1829)  was  the  first  phy- 
sician to  locate  in  Muncietown  or  Delaware 
County.  I  have  no  information  concerning  his 
individual  history  or  the  exact  date  of  location. 
Dr.  Burt  was  the  second  postmaster  at  Muncie- 
town and  filled  that  office  from  Aug.  29,  1829, 
to  May  6,  1835.  It  is  supposed  that  he  left  soon 
after  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  his  office. 
N'othing  further  is  known  of  his  history. 

Dr.  Levi  Minshall  (1829)  was  the  second  phy- 
sician to  locate  in  Muncietown.    He  was  born  in 


94  MEDICAL    HItiTORY    OF    IX DIANA. 

Virginia,  March  4,  1804.  He  was  licensed  to 
practice  at  Daj'ton,  Ohio,  in  1829,  and  came  to 
Mnncietown  in  the  same  j^ear  and  at  once  began 
the  practice  of  medicine.  An  old  citizen  who  re- 
members Dr.  MinshalPs  first  appearance  in  Mun- 
cietown  says  that  he  came  here  from  Dayton, 
Ohio,  riding  a  very  large  iron-gray  horse,  and 
wore  a  suit  of  broadcloth,  a  circumstance  that 
created  almost  a  sensation  among  the  primitive 
people  living  here  at  that  time,  as  homespun 
jeans  was  the  regulation  apparel  and  broadcloth 
was  reserved  for  the  rich  and  nobility.  He  was 
a  man  of  scholarly  attainments  and  soon  gained 
a  prominent  place  in  the  community  as  a  physi- 
cian .and  a  citizen.  One  of  the  interesting  inci- 
dents of  his  early  practice  in  the  country  when 
visiting  the  sick  was  that  he  would  ride  up  and 
down  T\Tiite  Eiver  in  the  water  to  avoid  bears 
and  wolves  that  roamed  about  in  their  native 
freedom  in  the  woods  in  the  territory  which  now 
comprises  Delaware  County.  He  died  at  Mun- 
cietowTi  March  6,  1836,  aged  32  years.  His  re- 
mains repose  in  Beech  Grove  Cemetery. 

If  the  physicians  whom  I  met  in  Delaware 
County  forty-two  years  ago  were  to  rise  from  the 
dead  and  appear  in  our  midst  to-day,  they  would 
be  startled  at  our  speeding  automobiles,  but  no 
less  surprised  at  our  new  advances  in  medicine 
and  surgery,  as  well  as  our  strange  medical 
terms,  for,  if  they  were  to  hear  medical  men 
conversing  about  antiseptics,  Listerism,  anti- 
toxins, serums  and  germs,  they  would  not  com- 
prehend their  meaning.     Should  they  attempt  a 


MEDICAL    HIHTOKY    OF    IXDIAyA.  95 

surgical  operation  according  to  the  rules  of  their 
da}^,  they  would  be  liable  to  answer  to  the  charge 
of  malpractice. 

Eeminiscences  op  Western  Hancock 
County. 

Eeminiscences  of  western  Hancock  County 
(Transactions,  1874,  p.  74)  by  Dr.  J.  W.  Her- 
vey,  of  Indianapolis,  is  worth  reprinting  because 
of  its  historical  value. 

"In  1846  the  congestive  fever,  as  then  called, 
made  its  appearance.  Many  died;  in  fact,  all 
the  patients  of  some  physicians.  Dr.  Moore,  of 
Cumberland,  contended  that  bleeding  was  the 
only  remedy;  after  that,  calomel  to  ptyalism.  He 
lost  nearly  every  case.  A  consultation  was  called 
at  Cumberland,  to  which  all  physicians  con- 
nected with  that  investigation  were  invited,  and 
a  treatment  was  agreed  upon,  embracing  the 
tonic  feature,  but  not  sufficiently  heroic;  but 
each  member  grew  into  the  habit  of  saving  his 
patients  by  full  and  frecjuent  doses  of  quinin. 
The  great  hindrance  to  the  use  of  quinin  was 
its  cost  and  the  scarcity  of  money.  Quinin  cost 
$6.00  (I  think  at  one  time  $8.00)  an  ounce,  and 
scarce  at  that.  Dr.  Hervey  bought  up  a  number 
of  fat  cattle,  drove  them  to  Indianapolis,  sold 
them  for  $7.50  a  head,  and  bought  quinin 
with  it. 

"In  1847  a  singular  epidemic  of  the  smallpox 
appeared  in  this  locality.  Erysipelas  had  been 
prevailing,  and  what  was  called  black  tongue.  A 
healthy  man  by  the  name  of  Snyder  took  the 
confluent  variola.     The  whole  surface  swelled  en« 


1)6  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

ormoush^  Dr.  William  E.  Smith  had  come  to 
Cumberland  some  time  before  that,  and  Dr. 
Bobbs,  who  came  to  the  same  place  about  the 
same  time,  were  called  to  see  him,  but  failed  to 
diagnose  the  case.  The  next  day  Dr.  Hervey 
was  called  in  consultation  and  pronounced  it 
smallpox  modified  by  erysipelas.  Failing  to 
agree  with  the  other  doctors,  he  left.  They  bled 
the  man  profusely  and  he  died  in  twenty-four 
hours  after.  The  people  flocked  from  all  about 
the  country  to  see  him.  The  consequence  was 
the  disease  spread  through  the  country.  Dr. 
Hervey  treated  84  cases,  and  did  not  bleed  or  de- 
plete one  of  them,  with  a  mortality  of  but  two 
children  and  three  grown  persons.  All  who  were 
depleted,  without  one  exception,  died.  Dr.  John 
S.  Bobbs  and  Dr.  Bulkird,  of  Indianapolis,  and 
Dr.  Brown,  of  Bethel,  were  called  together  at 
Isaac  Snj'der's  to  see  a  case,  and  agreed  with  Dr. 
Hervey  that  it  Avas  smallpox  modified  by  the  pre- 
vailing diatheses  of  the  country.  The  fact  of  its 
making  its  appearance  without  any  one  knowing 
how,  agitated  the  public  mind  to  the  highest 
pitch,  and,  as  Dr.  Hervey  had  seemed  to  become 
prominent  in  the  treatment  of  the  disease,  it  was 
finally  widespread  that  he  started  the  disease  for 
the  purpose  of  getting  into  business.  He  had 
seen  it  in  Cincinnati  the  winter  before,  and  it 
was  claimed  that  he  brought  a  scab  with  him, 
and  by  that  means,  or  some  other  way,  originated 
the  disease.  He  had  used  nitrate  of  silver  and 
tincture  of  iodin  to  prevent  pitting.  One  Miss 
Burris  lost  one  eye  and  was  otherwise  disfigured 
by  scars,  she  having  had  a  bad  case  of  confluent 


MEDICAL    HLSTORY    OF    IXDIANA.  97 

smallpox,  some  of  which  formed  in  the  eye.  Pop- 
ular prejudice  pointed  to  this  case  as  one  of 
malpractice,  and  suited  to  punish  him  for  hav- 
ing started  the  disease.  The  prejudice  and  bad 
feeling  against  the  doctor  was  so  popular  that  his 
counsel  advised  him  to  take  a  change  of  venue 
to  Shelby  County.  The  depositions  of  Dr.  Jack- 
son of  'New  York,  Prof.  Ptobley  Dunglison  of 
Philadelphia,  and  the  evidence  of  Dr.  John  S. 
Bobbs,  before  the  time  of  trial,  caused  the  case 
to  be  withdrawn.  The  doctor's  character  was 
vindicated,  and  he  rose  in  time  above  it,  but  it 
cost  him  about  three  years  of  his  life's  best 
efforts.  This  case  is  a  valuable  one  in  the  his- 
tory of  our  profession,  and  shows  how  dangerous 
is  the  ignorance  of  the  masses  \rhen  brought  to 
bear  upon  a  member  of  our  profession." 

Early  Medical  History  of  N'oble  Coun-ty. 

Dr.  J.  L.  Gilbert,  of  Kendall ville,  in  the 
Transactions  for  1874,  p.  73,  gives  an  interesting 
account  of  early  medical  matters  in  ISToble 
County.    It  is  here  reproduced. 

"On  the  12th  of  July,  1858,  a  number  of  the 
physicians  of  the  county  met  at  Ligonier  and 
organized  a  county  society,  with  D.  W.  C. 
Denny,  M.D.,  president,  and  S.  H.  Estabrook, 
M.D.,  secretary.  The  organization  was  kept  up 
but  a  short  time.  I  think  there  were  only  two 
meetings  held.  There  seemed  to  be  much  in- 
difference with  reference  to  medical  societies 
among  the  physicians  of  the  county,  which  ac- 
counts  for  its   short   life.      This   was   the   first 


98  MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

effort  in  JSToble  County  to  organize  a  medical 
society. 

"On  the  15th  of  June,  1870,  the  Northeastern 
Indiana  Medical  Society  was  organized.  This 
society  embraces  the  counties  of  Noble,  Lagrange, 
Steuben  and  DeKalb.  The  movement  which  cul- 
minated in  this  organization  originated  in  Noble 
County,  being  first  suggested  by  myself. 

"The  following  named  gentlemen  were  pres- 
ent at  the  first  meeting:  From  Noble  County — ■ 
D.  W.  C.  Denny,  C.  Palmiter,  W.  D.  EandalCu. 
J.  Ward,  T.  E.  Adair,  D.  N.  Fansler,  L.  F. 
Abell,  J.  L.  Gilbert,  G.  W.  Carr,  H.  Landon,  P. 
W.  Crum,  W.  H.  Franks,  E.  Wright,  0.  J.  Vin- 
cent, and  S.  T.  Williams.  From  Lagrange 
County — John  Dancer  and  J.  N.  Denny.  From 
Steuben  County — H.  D.  Wood. 

"DeKalb  County  was  not  represented  at  the 
first  meeting,  but  was  included  in  the  organiza- 
tion, and  S.  Stough,  from  that  county,  was 
elected  a  member  on  recommendation  of  H.  D. 
Wood. 

"O.  J.  Vincent  was  elected  president,  and  one 
vice-president  from  each  county,  viz. :  H.  D. 
Wood,  John  Dancer,  C.  Palmiter  and  S.  Stough; 
secretary,  J.  L.  Gilbert;  treasurer,  L.  F.  Abell; 
board  of  censors,  D.  W.  C.  Denny,  S.  T.  Williams, 
W.  H.  Franks,  H.  Landon  and  G.  W.  Oarr. 

"The  officers  were  elected  annually.  The  pres- 
idents thus  far  have  been  0.  J.  Vincent,  H.  D. 
Wood,  J.  Dancer  and  G.  W.  Carr.  The  society 
numbers  seventy  bona  fide  members.  These  are 
divided  among  the  counties  as  follows :  Noble, 
31;  LaGrange,  13;  Steuben,  13;  DeKalb,  13. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  99 

"The  following  named  gentlemen  are  honorary 
members,  most  of  whom  meet  with  us  at  least 
once  a  year  and  take  an  active  part  in  the  pro- 
ceedings :  K  S.  Davis,  J.  Adams  Allen,  M.  M. 
Latta,  Theophilus  Parvin,  B.  S.  Woodworth,  T. 
A.  McGraw,  Edward  Jenks,  Leartus  Connor',  R 
C.  S.  Eeed  and  C.  S.  Frink. 

"The  meetings  are  held  quarterly  and  are  well 
attended.  I  do  not  know  of  a  single  successful 
irregular  practitioner  within  the  bounds  of  the 
society.  Two  or  three  'eclectics'  of  some  pro- 
fessional standing  in  the  community  have  aban- 
doned the  distinctive  name  and  have  been  ad- 
mitted to  the  society  and  are  good  members.  It 
has  promoted  general  good  feeling  among  physi- 
cians, which  is  always  the  result  of  intimate  "^ac- 
quaintance among  ethical  men. 

"On  the  15th  of  November,  1873,  the  Xoble 
County  Medical  Society  was  organized  under  a 
call  made  in  pursuance  to  the  request  of  the 
State  Medical  Society  to  organize  county  socie- 
ties throughout  the  state.  G.  Erickson  was  made 
president,  and  N.  Teal  secretary.  Two  meetings 
have  been  held.  Most  of  the  physicians  have 
joined  it,  and  I  doubt  not  this  society  will  suc- 
ceed." 


CHAPTEE  XII. 


Pioneer  Physicians  oe  Bartholomew 
County. 

by  geo.  t.  mac  coy^  m.d.^  columbus,.  ini). 

During  the  session  of  the  Indiana  Legislature 
at  Corydon  (the  then  capital  of  the  state),  in 
1819-20,  a  number  of  counties  were  mapped  out 
and  a  law  passed  providing  for  their  organiza- 
tion. Among  the  number,  Bartholomew  County 
was  named  for  Gen.  Joseph  Bartholomew,  a 
member  from  Clark  County.  The  name  was 
given  at  the  instance  of  Gen.  John  Tipton.  At 
this  time  the  city  of  Columbus  (then  called  Tip- 
tonia,  for  General  Tipton)  consisted  of  only  five 
families.  The  county  became  a  "separate  juris- 
diction'^ on  Feb.  12,  1821,  with  two  hundred 
voters,  two  of  whom  were  preachers,  but  none 
were  doctors. 

All  traditions  concur  in  giving  to  Hiram 
Smith  the  post  of  honor  of  having  been  the  first 
doctor  to  locate  in  Columbus,  his  arrival  occur- 
ring in  April,  1821.  At  least  he  was  here  as 
early  as  May  1,  1821,  for  on  the  return  made  by 
the  assessor  for  that  year  (May  14,  1821)  Dr. 
Smith  is  charged  with  a  "poll  tax  and  no  other 
property."  Dr.  Smith  came  from  Mercer  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky.     What  his  medical  education  was. 


*  I    am   under    obligations   to   my   friend.   Dr.    George   T. 
MacCoy,  for  tliis  very  interesting  paper. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         101 

or  where  and  how  it  was  obtained,  I  am  unable 
to  learn;  but  this  much  I  have  learned  by  the 
joerusal  of  some  old  records — that  he  was  well 
read  in  his  profession,  better  than  the  average 
of  those  times,  and  that  his  fine  address  made 
him  a  favorite  at  once  in  the  primitive  settle- 
ment. That  Dr.  Smith  was  a  man  above  the 
average  may  be  readily  believed  from  the  rec- 
ords of  St.  John's  Lodge,  'No.  20,_  F.  &  A.  M., 
of  Columbus.  At  a  meeting  to  organize  a  so- 
ciety it  was  found  that  Dr.  Hiram  Smith  was 
the  unanimous  choice  for  master,  and  when  the 
Grand  Lodge  met  in  session  at  Corydon,  Octo- 
ber, 1822,  ai  charter  was  granted  to  St.  John's 
Lodge,  and  Dr.  Hiram  Smith,  although  he  was 
not  present  at  the  session,  was  named  as  the 
first  worshipful  master.  This  office  he  held  for 
several  years.  Dr.  Smith  had  the  honor  to  open 
and  change  the  first  mail  ever  delivered  in  Co- 
lumbus, and  was  probably  the  first  postmaster.* 
As  to  Dr.  Smith's  methods  in  practice,  I  can 
say  very  little.  He  was  a  firm  believer  in  the 
lancet  and  heroic  doses  of  calomel  and  Peruvian 
bark.  Tablespoonful  doses  of  the  powdered  bark, 
in  molasses,  given  every  two  hours  during  a  re- 
mission or  intermission  of  fever,  were  one  of  his 
stand-bys  in  the  treatment  of  malarial  fevers. 
Dr.  Smith  continued  in  active  practice  here  for 
many  years,  until  the  death  of  his  wife,  which 
occurred    during   confinement.      To    suppress    a 

*  Possibly  this  is  an  error. — Mr.  C.  P.  Granfleld,  First 
Assistant  Postmaster  General,  writes  me,  under  date  of 
April  14th,  1909,  as  follows  :  "You  are  advised  that  ac- 
cording to  the  records  of  this  office  the  first  postmaster 
at  Columbus,  Ind.  was  William  Duerson,  appointed  August 
22,  1821,  and  the  name'  of  Dr.  Smith  does  not  appear  as 
ever  having  been  postmaster  at  this  office." — G.  W.  H.  K. 


102         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IW DIANA. 

uterine  hemorrhage  the  Doctor  used  large  quan- 
tities of  cold  water.  She  died.  His  enemies 
claimed  that  the  cold  water  killed  her.  This  so 
worried  and  embittered  him  that  he  left  Colum- 
bus and  located  in  Mooresville,  but  shortly  after 
moved  to  Edinburgh  Johnson  County,  where  his 
death  occurred  Oct.  1,  1869,  from  gastric  ulcer. 
The  date  of  his  birth  can  not  be  determined, 
but  it  is  known  that  he  was  79  years  old  when 
he  died. 

The  next  physician  to  locate  in  Columbus  was 
Dr.  Joseph  L.  Washburn,  who  came  here  in  the 
autumn  of  1821  and  began  to  practice  at  once. 
He  was  born  and  educated  in  Vermont.  Before 
studying  medicine  he  was  engaged  in  teaching 
school  at  Middleburg,  that  state.  The  acciden- 
tal introduction  of  smallpox  broke  up  his  school, 
and  he  was  vaccinated,  thus  protecting  himself 
from  the  disease.  This  so  pleased  him  that  he 
vaccinated  many  others,  being  so  successful  that 
he  was  dubbed  "Kine  Pox  Doctor."  He  began 
the  study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Tan- 
sher,  of  Middleburg,  Vt.,  and  finished  in  the 
office  of  Dr.  Needham,  of  Crown  Point,  N.  Y. 
In  March,  1832,  he  was  senior  deacon  of  St. 
John's  Lodge,  Columbus,  Ind. 

Dr.  Washburn  had  a  good  English  education, 
and  a  better  medical  education  than  many  who 
have  practiced  here  since  his  -day;  he  continued 
to  grow  in  popularity,  not  only  on  account  of 
his  professional  ability,  but  his  social  qualities 
also  endeared  him  to  all.  In  January,  1828, 
he  was  elected  county  agent,  and  shortly  after- 
ward he  was  elected   and  commissioned  magis- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         103 

trate  of  the  county  and  ex  officio  member  of  the 
"board  of  control/^  He  held  this  office  "with- 
out fear  or  reproach"  until  the  day  of  his  death, 
Oct.  9^  1828.  A  contemporary  notice  appeared 
in  the  Indianapolis  Journal,  written  by  some 
one  who  knew  him  well,  extolling  his  virtues 
and  commending  his  useful  life,  both  as  a  physi- 
cian and  citizen.  Dr.  Washburn  was  a  success- 
ful practitioner ;  his  treatment  of  dysentery  con- 
sisted in  cathartics  and  opium,  a  practice  not 
much  improved  upon  at  the  present  day.  His 
honored  remains  were  interred  in  what  is  known 
as  "The  Thompson  Graveyard,"  one  mile  south 
of  the  city,  where  I  saAV  and  copied  the  inscrip- 
tion on  the  moldering  marble  that  marks  his 
resting-place. 

Dr.  William  V.  Snyder  came  here  from  Vir- 
ginia in  1822,  and  practiced  in  Columbus  and 
the  surrounding  country  for  several  years.  He 
was  very  popular  with  all  classes,  but  became 
dissatisfied  with  his  location  and  returned  to 
Virginia,  where  he  died  many  years  ago. 

Dr.  Joseph  Eose  and  his  junior  brother,  Dr. 
E.  Eose,  located  here  about  1822.  They  were 
both  good  physicians,  but  I  have  been  unable  to 
learn  where  they  came  from,  or  where  they  went, 
as  they  remained  here  only  a  few  years. 

Dr.  John  Eitchie  located  in  Columbus  about 
1827,  and  at  once  secured  a  fair  share  of  patron- 
age. He  was  sociable  and  affable,  a  fair  public 
speaker  and  a  safe  practitioner  of  medicine.  His 
wife  was  an  educated  woman,  and  was  the  first 
of  her  sex  to  teach  the  higher  branches  in  the 
public   schools   of   this    city.     Dr.    Eitchie   was 


104         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

born  in  Adams  County,  Pennsylvania,  Jan.  5, 
1782.  He  had  a  common  school  education, 
which  he  added  to  by  study  after  his  marriage. 
He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Warwick,  near 
Brycelands  Cross  Eoads,  twenty  miles  west  of 
Pittsburg.  He  practiced  a  few  years  in  Ohio 
before  coming  to  Columbus.  In  1832  Dr.  Eit- 
chie  moved  to  Franklin,  Ind.,  where  he  enjoyed 
a  lucrative  practice,  and  was  held  in  high  esteem 
for  many  years.  His  death  occurred  in  that 
city,  Oct.  10^  1857.  He  was  once  a  candidate 
for  the  office  of  probate  judge,  but  was  defeated 
by  only  a  few  votes. 

Dr.  James  Eitchie,  son  of  the  physician  named 
above,  was  born  in  Erie  County,  Pennsylvania, 
June  6,  1804.  He  studied  medicine  with  his 
father,  and  attended  one  course  of  lectures  in 
the  Medical  College  of  Ohio  in  the  winter  of 
1828-9.  After  leaving  school  he  came  to  Colum- 
bus and  engaged  in  practice  with  his  father. 
Afterward  he  moved  to  Edinburg,  and  later  to 
Eensselaer,  where  he  died  some  years  ago.  Dr. 
James  Eitchie  was  a  member  of  the  constitu- 
tional convention  of  1850  that  gave  to  Indiana 
her  present  constitution. 

Dr.  William  P.  Kiser  came  to  Columbus  about 
1828.  He  studied  medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr. 
Cravens,  in  Shenandoah  County,  Virginia,  hav- 
ing as  fellow  office  student  Dr.  Joseph  A.  Bax- 
ter, who  also  located  in  Columbus  in  1829,  form- 
ing a  partnership  with  Dr.  Kiser,  which  lasted 
several  years,  terminating  in  mutual  disagree- 
ment. '  Dr.  Kiser  was  a  good  dresser  and  a  good 
talker,  but  he  was  a  man  of  quick,  irritable  tern- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         105 

per,  which,  interfered  greatly  with  his  popular- 
ity. In  his  practice  he  was  noted  for  "snap 
diagnosis";  he  did  not  study  his  cases  very  well. 
He  was  elected  treasurer  of  the  county,  which 
office  he  held  several  years;  he  also  served  one 
term  in  the  legislature  as  representative  from 
this  county.  He  died  many  years  ago  at  Eock- 
port,  Ind. 

Dr.  Joseph  A.  Baxter,  as  stated  above,  studied 
medicine  in  the  office  of  Dr.  Cravens  in  Shenan- 
doah County,  Virginia,  and  located  in  Colum- 
bus a  year  later  than  Dr.  Kiser,  with  whom  he 
was  associated  in  practice.  Dr.  Baxter  was  a 
man  of  talents  and  a  physician  in  the  best  sense 
of  the  term.  As  a  diagnostician  he  had  few 
equals.  Almost  every  autopsy  held  in  the  county 
for  eight  or  ten  years  was  conducted  by  him. 
Some  of  these  were  noted  criminal  cases.  One 
noted  post  mortem  was  made  at  night,  with  only 
the  light  of  one  tallow  candle,  held  by  the  late 
Judge  Tunis  Quick.  Dr.  Baxter  established  the 
first  drug  store  operated  in  Columbus.  In  relig- 
ion Dr.  Baxter  was  a  strict  Presbyterian,  and  be- 
came a  ruling  elder  in  the  church  in  Columbus. 
He  was  one  of  the  leading  physicians  of  the  state 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1839, 
before  he  had  reached  the  meridian  of  life.  His 
death  was  universally  regretted. 

Dr.  Tiffin  Davis  came  to  Columbus  from  Ohio 
in  1830.  He  was  a  classmate  of  Dr.  James 
Ritchie,  mentioned  above,  having  attended  lec- 
tures at  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio  in  1828-29. 
He  was  one  of  the  best  physicians  of  his  day;  in 
fact.  Dr.  Joseph  A.  Baxter  and  Dr.  Tiffin  Davis 


106         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

stand  out  as  bright  lights  in  the  medical  pro- 
fession of  this  part  of  Indiana.  Dr.  Davis  was 
the  possessor  of  a  good  English  education  and 
was  intended  for  the  profession  of  teaching. 
His  mother  was  an  estimable  woman,  Miss  Tif- 
fin, a  sister  of  Edward  Tiffin,  the  first  governor 
of  Ohio.  Dr.  Davis  acquired  some  fame  as  a 
surgeon,  being  considered  the  best  surgeon  in 
this  part  of  the  state.  He  attended  the  late  Dr. 
Hiram  Smith,  mentioned  above,  in  his  last  ill- 
ness, and  soon  followed  him  to  his  long  home. 
He  died  in  Edinburg,  also,  about  1871. 

About  the  same  time  that  Dr.  Tiffin  Davis 
came  to  Columbus,  Dr.  Henry  B.  Eoland  came 
from  Virginia,  and  located  in  the  county  be- 
tween Columbus  and  Kewbern.  Dr.  Eoland  was 
always  considered  one  of  the  best  general  prac- 
titioners in  the  county,  and,  in  fact,  he  was  a 
good  student  all  the  time,  reading  everything 
he  could  get  hold  of,  which,  however,  was  not  a 
great  deal.  He  studied  his  profession  whilst  he 
was  paying  a  debt  in  the  true  old  Virginia  style 
— in  jail.  At  that  time  all  bankrupts  were  fur- 
nished boarding  and  lodging,  and  sometimes 
medical  attendance,  whilst  paying  their  debts 
as  bankrupts  in  prison.  While  he  lay  in  jail,  a 
kind  medical  friend  was  good  enough  to  loan 
him  the  necessary  books  and  give  him  instruc- 
tion in  the  divine  art  of  healing  the  sick,  and  he 
came  out  of  jail  a  fair  medical  practitioner  for 
that  date.  Dr.  Eoland  was  a  man  of  fine  tal- 
ents, kind  and  obliging  to  all,  particularly  so  to 
young  men.  In  1840,  while  practicing  medicine 
in   this    county,   he    was    made    probate    judge. 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF    IXDIAyA.         107 

which  office  he  filled  creditably.  The  last  heard 
of  Dr.  Eoland  he  was  practicing  medicine  in 
Bloomfield,  Iowa,  where  he  located  in  1848,  and 
possibly  died  there  years  ago. 

Among  the  physicians  who  located  in  this 
county  at  later  periods,  1839-1850,  I  may  men- 
tion the  following: 

Dr.  Samuel  M.  Linton  first  located  in  Azalia, 
in  1839,  coming  to  Columbus  in  1842.  He  en- 
joyed a  large  practice  and  was  an  enthusiastic 
member  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society.* 
He  died  in  Columbus  Dec.  28,  1889;  his  obitu- 
ary is  found  in  the  Transactions  of  1890. 

Dr.  Samuel  Barbour  settled  here  in  1843, 
coming  from  Eush  County.  After  several  years' 
practice  in  Columbus,  he  returned  to  Eushville, 
and  later  moved  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  gave 
up  the  practice  of  medicine  and  became  pro- 
prietor of  the  "Palmer  House.'^ 

Dr.  George  C.  Comstock,  a  graduate  of  the 
Louisville  Medical  College,  established  himself 
in  Columbus  in  1841.  He  was  a  young  man  of 
fine  professional  promise  and  an  amateur  artist 
of  no  mean  pretensions.  Some  of  his  portraits 
in  oil  are  still  preserved.  After  a  few  years  of 
very  successful  practice  in  Columbus,  he  moved 
to  Illinois,  where  he  died  of  apoplexy,  Jan.  28, 
1845.  He  had  begun  the  practice  of  medicine 
when  less  than  20  years  old,  and,  had  he  been 
spared,  would  have  made  a  name  for  himself  of 
which  his  friends  might  well  be  proud. 

Dr.  Eobert  M.  McClure  came  from  Madison, 
Ind.,  where  he  was  born;  he  was  a  graduate  of 


*  Elected  president  of  the  State  Society  in  1864. 


108  •       MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

one  of  tlie  medical  colleges  of  Philadelphia.  He 
located  in  Columbus  in  1843^  and  enjoyed  a  fair 
practice  while  living  in  this  city.  He  was  a 
courteous,  dignified  gentleman,  and  bore  the 
reputation  of  a  careful  and  intelligent  physician. 
He  returned  to  Madison  about  1853  and  Avas 
highly  respected  in  his  new  home,  where  he  died 
several  years  ago. 

Dr.  Isaac  Fenley,  who  removed  here  from 
Jackson  County  about  the  year  1844,  is  one  of 
the  early  physicians  whose  name  is  entitled  to  a 
place  among  the  heroes  in  medicine.  When  the 
second  call  for  volunteers  was  made  for  the  Mex- 
ican War,  in  1847,  Dr.  Fenley  assisted  in  rais- 
ing a  company  in  the  Fourth  Indiana  Eegiment, 
and  was  commissioned  lieutenant.  Upon  arriv- 
ing in  Mexico,  he  was  detached  from  his  com- 
pany and  assigned  to  duty  as  regimental  sur- 
geon, in  which  capacity  he  served  until  the  close 
of  the  war.*  Eeturning  to  Columbus,  in  1848, 
he  at  once  resumed  practice.  In  1849  the  cholera 
was  brought  to  Columbus  by  German  immigrants 
from  ]^ew  Orleans  via  the  Mississippi  and  Ohio 
rivers.  Many  immigrants  died  and  not  a  few 
citizens.  Dr.  Fenley  among  the  list.  He  found 
in  cholera  a  greater  foe  than  Mexican  bullets, 
but,  like  a  true  soldier,  he  died  fighting — at  his 
post.  He  was  a  brave  man,  honorable  and  hon- 
est, a  fine  surgeon  and  skilful  physician.  His 
loss  was  felt  by  the  entire  community;  he  is 
still  spoken  of  with  reverence  by  some  of  the  old- 

*  See  reference  to  Dr.  Isaac  Fenley,  in  chapter,  "Indiana 
Physicians  in  the  Mexican  War,"  p.  186. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         109 

est  inhabitants.  "Peace  hath  her  victories,  no 
less  renowned  than  war.'^ 

Dr.  Homer  T.  Hinman,  who  first  located  in 
Hope,  this  county,  came  to  this  city  in  1848. 
He  practiced  physic  very  successfully  and  satis- 
factorily for  several  years.  He  traveled  for  one 
year  as  grand  masonic  lecturer,  visiting  all  the 
lodges  in  the  state,  after  which  he  resumed  prac- 
tice until  his  death  in  1859,  from  "congestion 
of  the  stomach."  He  was  an  influential  citizen, 
universally  respected,  and  his  untimely  demise 
in  the  full  prime  of  manhood  caused  general 
sorrow  and  regret. 

The  gentlemen  whose  names  appear  in  this 
list  were  all  members  of  the  "regular"  school  of 
medicine.  In  addition  to  these,  there  were  other 
early  doctors  who  located  at  Columbus  and  in 
the  different  settlements  and  villages  of  the 
county  from  time  to  time,  but  I  am  not  in  pos- 
session of  sufficient  knowledge  concerning  these 
to  enable  me  to  give  them  proper  notice. 

It  can  not  be  said  that  our  early  doctors  were 
all  men  of  eminent  scientific  skill  or  training. 
Few  of  them  held  diplomas  from  medical  col- 
leges, for  seventy  or  eighty  years  ago  medical 
colleges  were  not  as  thick  in  the  land  as  now. 
The  pioneer  doctors  learned  all  they  knew  by 
reading,  observation  and  instruction  under  es- 
tablished practitioners  and  by  their  own  after- 
experience.  Men  of  fair  education  and  good 
common  sense  in  a  few  years  gained  good  repu- 
tations as  successful  and  safe  physicians.  They 
learned  and  were  guided  by  actual  practice  more 
than  by  theory  or  the  formulas  laid  down  in  the 


110         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    I^WIA^A. 

few  books  tlie}^  were  able  to  procure.  Each  doc- 
tor carried  his  own  remedial  agents — a  small 
drug  store^ — in  a  pair  of  saddle-bags  of  huge 
dimensions,  and  dosed  out  with  liberal  hand. 
They  rode  on  horseback  to  visit  their  patients, 
da}^  or  night,  far  or  near,  through  the  dense 
woods  and  over  slashy  paths  and  rough  corduroy 
roads,  fording  or  swimming-  streams  and  endur- 
ing innumerable  hardships,  which  the  physicians 
of  the  present  day  would  not  dare  to  encounter. 

During  the  years  of  the  early  settlement  of 
the  county,  the  numerous  rivers  and  creeks  were 
fouled  and  obstructed  by  fallen  timber,  drifts 
and  other  accumulations  of  vegetable  debris. 
The  waters  from  freshets  and  overflows  stood 
reeking  and  stagnant  on  the  lowlands  and  in  the 
sloughs  and  bayous,  and  gave  out  their  noxious 
exhalations  for  miles  and  miles  around,  while 
thick  forests  and  tangled  undergrowth,  in  rich 
and  rank  profusion,  almost  equalled  the  famed 
valley  of  the  Amazon.  The  atmosphere  was 
laden  with  pestilential  miasma,  particularly  in 
the  autumnal  season,  when  biliary  and  malarial 
diseases  were  rife.  Whole  settlements  were  at 
times  stricken  down  and  rendered  almost  help- 
less. It  is  reliably  stated  that,  in  the  fall  of 
1821,  there  was  only  one  well  man  in  the  city 
of  Columbus,  a  stalwart  six-footer,  who  had 
evidently  been  brought  up  in  a  swamp.  He  was 
cook  and  nurse  to  the  entire  community,  and 
his  memory  deserves  to  be  perpetuated. 

The  doctors  found  the  ague,  in  many  in- 
stances, more  than  a  match  for  their  skill.  It 
was   of   the   real   shaking,   quaking   variety,   the 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         Ill 

chill  lasting  not  infrequently  three  or  four  hours, 
to  be  followed  by  raging  fever  and  intense  insa- 
tiable thirst.  So  malignant  was  this  type  of 
fever  that  as  many  as  three  or  four  deaths  of 
adults  have  occurred  in  one  family  in  less  than 
forty-eight  hours.  Peruvian  bark  and  calomel 
would  temporarily  check  the  fever,  but  cold 
weather  seemed  to  be  the  only  thing  that  would 
stop  this  dreadful  scourge,  and  even  this  failed 
in  some  cases,  and  the  poor  invalid  either  wore 
himself  out  or  else  wore  out  the  disease.  (The 
relation  of  the  mosquito  to  the  prevalence  of 
malaria  was  not  then  dreamed  of.)  In  the  early 
settlement,  the  "regulars"  in  the  treatment  of 
fever  relied  mainly  upon  one  remedy — calomel. 
It  was,  indeed,  extraordinary  upon  the  part  of  the 
physician  to  treat  any  form  of  disease  without  the 
generous  use  of  large  doses  of  calomel.  Xot  to 
salivate  a  patient  seemed  to  be  regarded  as  al- 
most allowing  him  or  her  to  go  to  the  grave 
without  a  saving  effort. 

A  patient  "sick  of  a  fever"  must  also  be  freely 
bled  before  an  internal  remedy  was  administered. 
The  lancet  held  sway  alongside  of  calomel.  If, 
in  raising  a  log  cabin,  a  man  was  thrown  from 
his  "corner"  and  badly  bruised,  the  practice  was 
to  bleed  him  copiously  on  the  spot  as  the  first 
step  toward  his  recovery. 

While  we  of  to-day  may  see  many  things  to 
criticise  in  the  methods  of  these  pioneer  physi- 
cians, we  must  all  acknowledge  that  they  stood 
out  as  shining  lights  in  their  day  and  genera- 
tion, the  equals,  if  not  the  superiors,  of  their 
contemporaries   in   all  the   other   walks   of   life. 


112         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

They  did  their  duty  as  citizensj  and  as  physi- 
cians they  were  always  found  doing  their  best 
"according  to  their  lights."  The  physicians  of 
Bartholomew  County  have  succeeded  to  a  noble 
heritage;  may  they  prove  worthy  of  their  great 
responsibility. 

Note. — In  the  preparation  of  this  article,  I  have  been 
greatly  indebted  to  the  Hon.  George  Pence,  ex-auditor  of 
this  county,  for  valuable  information  and  for  the  privilege 
of  perusing  the  notes  and  manuscripts  left  by  the  late 
Dr.  J.  C  Beck,  of  Cincinnati,  and  some  early  publications 
by  the  Hon.  W.  H.  Terrell,  of  Indianapolis,  both  natives 
of  this  county. — G.  T.  M. 

Note. — Drs.  Isaac  Fenley  and  Homer  T.  Hinman  were 
present  at  the  formation  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical 
Society,  June,   1849.— G.  W.  H.  K. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 


Early  Medical  Men  of  Fayette  County.— 

Early    Medical    History    of    Grant 

County. — Pioneer  Physicians 

OF    Clay    County. 

For  the  following  very  interesting  report  of 
the  physicians  of  Fayette  County  I  am  indebted 
to  Dr.  ll.  M.  Lamberson,  of  Connersville. 

Among  the  earliest  physicians  of  whom  we 
have  any  knowledge  who  settled  within  the  pres- 
ent limits  of  Fayette  County  were  Drs.  John 
Bradburn,  James  Thomas,  Joseph  Moffett,  Tem- 
ple E.  Gayle  and  Joseph  S.  Burr. 

Dr.  John  Bradburn  was  a  native  of  Lancaster 
County,  Pa.,  and  as  early  as  1814  settled  here 
in  the  vicinity  of  what  is  known  as  Harrisburg, 
in  Fayette  County.  Hon.  Oliver  H.  Smith,  in 
his  "Early  Indiana  Trials  and  Sketches,"  refers 
to  him  as  an  eminent  surgeon,  a  man  of  great 
muscular  pow-er  and  of  the  most  indomitable 
personal  courage.  The  doctor's  experience  as  a 
practitioner  in  this  county  was  marred  by  a  fear- 
ful tragedy,  in  which  he  became  instrumental  in 
the  death  of  two  young  men  in  the  spring  of 
1825,  he  having  killed  them  with  a  surgeon's 
knife,  as  they,  with  others,  were  going  to  carry 
him  to  a  creek  one  evening  in  order  to  "duck" 


114  MEDICAL  HISTORY  OF  INDlAlS^A. 

liim.*  Shortly  after  the  traged}^  he  removed  to 
the  southern  part  of  the  state,  and  subsequently 
to  the  vicinity  of  Brcokville,  Ind.,  where  he  died 
in  1835.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  regular  grad- 
uate and  highly  respected  and  possessed  of  an 
inflexible  will  and  great  executive  ability. 

Dr.  James  Thomas  was  a  native  of  N'ew  York 
state  and  was  one  of  a  colony  of  emigrants  that 
settled  in   the   vicinity  of  Harrisburg  in   1819. 

*  "About  twelve  o'clock  at  night  the  party  silently  ap- 
proached the  dwelling  of  the  doctor  and  tried  to  open  the 
door,  but  found  it  fast.  The  doctor  was  in  bed  in  an  ad- 
joining room,  wide  awake,  with  his  large  knife  under  his 
pillow,  cool  and  prepared.  The  outside  party  placed  an 
iron  crow-bar,  which  they  had  brought  with  them,  under 
the  door,  threw  it  off  its  hinges  and  entered  the  room, 
carrying  with  them  the  ropes  prepared  to  tie  the  doctor 
before  they  took  him  from  the  house.  In  the  meantime  the 
doctor  remained  silently  sitting  upon  his  bed,  with  his 
knife  in  his  hands.  The  room  was  dark.  The  party  ad- 
vanced, feeling  their  way,  until  the  foremost,  young  Alex- 
ander, about  eighteen  years  of  age,  reached  the  bed,  when 
he  received  a  fatal  stab  with  the  knife,  turned,  rushed  to 
the  door,  stepped  out,  and  fell  dead  in  the  yard.  Not  a 
word  was  spoken.  The  next,  young  Caldwell,  about  twenty 
years  of  age,  advanced,  evidently  not  knowing  the  fate  of 
Alexander  until  he  came  within  the  grasp  of  the  doctor, 
when  the  fatal  knife  was  thrust  through  his  side,  pene- 
trating his  heart.  He  uttered  a  loud  groan,  turned,  fled  to 
the  door,  passed  a  short  distance  into  the  yard,  fell  and 
died  near  the  body  of  Alexander.  The  groan  of  Caldwell 
alarmed  the  others,  who  immediately  retreated  for  the  door, 
pursued  by  the  doctor,  and  one  other  of  the  party  received 
a  severe  but  not  a  mortal  wound.  Capt.  Broaddus  told  me 
that  at  one  time  the  doctor  was  between  him  and  the  donr, 
and  as  he  passed  to  go  out  the  doctor  struck  at  him  with 
his  knife,  and  just  grazed  his  side.  It  was  very  evident 
that  but  for  the  groan  of  Caldwell  not  one  of  the  assail- 
ants would  have  left  the  house  alive.  Such  was  the  awful 
tragedy  at  the  house.  The  young  men  killed  were  of  the 
very  first  families  of  the  county,  indeed  of  the  state.  The 
excitement  was  intense ;  the  doctor  gave  himself  up  and 
was  put  into  jail.  After  the  trial  the  jury  retired  but  a 
few  minutes  and  returned  a  verdict  of  not  gxiilty,  on  the 
ground  of  self-defense.  So  ended  this  Ipng-to-be-remembered 
case  in  old  Fayette."  "Indiana  Trials  and  Sketches,"  page 
15.— G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IX DIANA.  115 

He  was  a  regular  graduate  and  for  years  en- 
joyed a  successful  and  lucrative  practice. 

Dr.  Joseph  Moffett  settled  here  about  1820. 
He  was  a  native  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  and  a 
well-trained  student  fresh  from  Yale  College. 
He  died  in  1833. 

About  this  time  Drs.  Temple  E.  Gayle  and 
Joseph  S.  Burr  came  to  Connersville  and  began 
the  practice  of  medicine.  Dr.  Burr  was  a  small, 
black-eyed  man,  wearing  plain  clothing,  and 
speaking  the  plain  language  of  "thee  and  thou." 
He  came  here  from  New  Philadelphia,  Ohio. 
Shortly  after  arriving  here  he  had,  for  a  sign, 
an  enormous  swamp  lily  root,  almost  as  large  as 
a  man  and  cut  to  resemble  one,  nailed  to  the 
weather  boarding  of  the  hotel  where  he  was  stay- 
ing, with  a  chalk  sign  above,  "Joseph  S.  Burr, 
root  doctor,  no  calomel."  He  later  engaged  in 
the  drug  business.  One  acquainted  with  him 
said  "he  was  a  man  of  some  medical  knowledge, 
which  he  used  with  moderate  success,  while  to 
his  patrons  he  utterly  denounced  all  doctor 
larnin'  and  made  his  claims  on  the  ^root'  sys- 
tem." His  chief  ability  consisted  of  cunning  and 
a  knowledge  of  human  nature. 

Dr.  Temple  E.  Gayle  was  a  talented  man,  but 
died  young,  October,  1827,  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
two  years.  The  "Press"  said  of  him,  "'As  a  man 
of  talent  the  doctor  was  excelled  by  few,  if  any, 
in  the  state ;  as  a  practicing  physician  he  was 
eminently  successful  and  popular." 

Dr.  Philip  Mason  was  a  native  of  Massachu- 
setts, born  Dec.  10,  1793,  and  settled  in  Fayette 
County  in  1816.    He  finished  his  course  of  read- 


116         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

ing  and  clinical  studies  under  Dr.  Joseph  Moffett 
of  Connersville  about  1824.  He  practiced  in  the 
vicinity  of  Connersville  until  1830^  part  of  the 
time  on  his  farm  in  Columbia  township,  the  bal- 
ance of  the  time  at  Orange^  where  he  was  in 
partnershij)  with  Dr.  Jefferson  Helm,  who  later 
moved  to  Eushville.  In  1829  Dr.  Mason  was 
elected  Probate  Judge  of  Fayette  County  and 
served  until  1834.  The  year  following  he  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature  and  twice  re-elected 
to  that  body.  He  also  served  as  Master  of  War- 
ren Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  for  thirteen  years,  and 
as  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  the  state 
for  eight  years. 

Dr.  Jefferson  Helm,  a  native  of  Mason  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky,  was  born  in  1803.  He  studied 
medicine  with  Drs.  Moffett  and  Mason  and  was 
licensed  to  practice  in  1827,  locating  at  first  at 
what  is  now  Orange,  later  moving  to  Glenwood, 
where  he  remained  until  1845,  when  he  removed 
to  Eushville. 

Dr.  Hayman  W.  Clark  was  licensed  to  practice 
medicine  at  the  same  time  with  Dr.  Helm  in 
1827.     Of  his  later  history  I  have  no  record. 

In  1828  Dr.  Samuel  Miller  located  in  Con- 
nersville, having  come  from  Dayton,  Ohio. 

Another  practitioner  who  advertised  in  the 
Press  of  1830  was  Dr.  Charles  Barnes. 

Dr.  E3'land  T.  Brown,  a  native  of  Lewis  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky,  came  to  Eush  County  in  1821, 
where  he  acted  as  a  guide  for  land  seekers  until 
he  attended  a  course  at  the  Ohio  Medical  Col- 
lege at  Cincinnati,  where  he  graduated  in  1829. 
In  August,  1832,  he  located  in  Connersville  and 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         117 

for  several  years  was  a  partner  of  Dr.  Mason. 
He  remained  in  Connersville  until  1842.  In 
1854  he  was  appointed  State  Geologist  by  Gov- 
ernor Wright.  In  1858  he  was  elected  to  the 
chair  of  Natural  Science  in  the  N.  W.  C.  Uni- 
versity^ at  Indianapolis.  He  is  author  of  a 
common  school  text-book  of  recognized  merit, 
"Brown's  Physiology." 

Dr.  D.  D.  Hall,  a  Virginian,  located  in  Con- 
nersville, where  he  continued  to  practice,  except 
for  a  few  months  while  in  the  service  as  Surgeon 
of  the  Thirty-Sixth  Eegiment,  Indiana  Volun- 
teers, until  his  death,  June  20,  1871. 

A  published  statement  in  1846,  giving  the 
names  of  physicians  practicing  here,  was  Drs. 
Philip  Mason,  Samuel  Miller,  D.  D.  Hall,  John 
Arnold,  E.  A.  Bacon  and  S.  W.  Hughes,  of  Con- 
nersville; Greenbury  Steele,  Columbia  township; 
Alfred  Euby,  Alquina;  George  Winchel,  Colum- 
bia; U.  B.  Tingley,  Harrisburg;  Amos  Cliap- 
man,  Waterloo;  Presley  Libray,  Everton,  and 
Edward  Daniels,  Orange. 

Dr.  George  E.  Chitwood  was  born  in  Gallia 
County,  Ohio,  May  10,  1805.  He  w^as  licensed 
to  practice  medicine  and  surgery  in  1830,  lo- 
cated in  Franklin  County,  Indiana,  in  1831.  He 
attended  lectures  at  the  Ohio  Medical  College 
1835-36.  He  removed  to  Liberty,  Union  County, 
in  1837.  In  1846  he  received  the  degree  ol 
M.D.  from  Western  Eeserve  Medical  College  at 
Cleveland  and  removed  to  Connersville  in  1849. 
He  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  General  Pathol- 
ogy and  Physical  Diagnosis  in  the  Cincinnati 
College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery  in  1859,  which 


118         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

he  filled  for  the  sessions  1859-60.  He  was  then 
transferred  to  the  chair  of  Obstetrics  and  Dis- 
eases of  Women  and  Children^  which  he  filled  for 
six  consecutive  sessions,  after  which  time  he  re- 
signed on  account  of  domestic  afflictions. 

On  May  24,  1856,  the  physicians  met  and 
organized  their  first  society,  called  the  White 
Water  Valley  Medical  Society,  with  the  follow- 
ing as  charter  members:  Drs.  Samuel  Miller, 
D.  D.  Hall,  A.  H.  Chapman,  W.  J.  Pepper,  D. 
Trembly,  W.  W.  Taylor,  S.  W.  Vance,  0.  E. 
Chitwood,  C.  D.  B.  O'Eyan  and  V.  H.  Gregg, 
of  Connersville ;  B.  S.  Silory,  A.  H.  Thompson 
and  M.  F.  Miller,  Everton ;  H.  W.  Hazard,  Ben- 
tonville;  E.  T.  Gillum,  Waterloo;  U.  B.  Ting- 
ley,  Harrisburg.  Dr.  W.  J.  Pepper  finished  his 
reading  under  G.  E.  Chitwood  and  began  prac- 
ticing in  Connersville  at  this  time. 

On  April  22,  1858,  they  changed  the  name  of 
the  White  Water  Valley  Medical  Society  to  the 
Fayette  County  Medical  Society  and  continued 
its  organization  until  1861.  In  the  meantime 
Dr.  W.  W.  Taylor,  who  located  in  Connersville 
some  years  before,  died  in  1859. 

Dr.  Vincent  H.  Gregg  entered  the  army  as 
Surgeon  in  the  124th  Eegiment  Indiana  Volun- 
teers, in  the  First  Brigade,  First  Division,  Twen- 
ty-Third Army  Corps,  and  served  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Cumberland  under  General  Sher- 
man until  the  close  of  the  war. 

Dr.  Joshua  Chitwood,  a  son  of  Dr.  George  E. 
Chitwood,  graduated  in  medicine  in  1858  and 
entered  the  army  as  Surgeon  in  the  Seventh 
Eegiment,  Indiana  Cavalry. 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF    IMJlAXA.  ll'J 

Dr.  George  W.  Garver  located  in  Connersville 
in  1865,  having  served  in  the  United  States 
Navy  as  Assistant  Surgeon  on  the  Western  Flo- 
tilla, Department  of  the  Mississippi. 

Dr.  S.  W.  Hughes  died  in  1865. 

In  1866  the  Fayette  County  Medical  Society 
was  reorganized. 

"The  above  data  of  the  early  medical  history 
of  Fayette  County  was  mostly  compiled  from  an 
earlier  history  of  medicine  of  the  county  writ- 
ten twenty-five  years  ago  by  Dr.  S.  M.  Hamil- 
ton, now  practicing  in  this  county,  he  in  turn 
having  obtained  it  from  the  pioneers  then  liv- 
ing in  this  locality.^' — H.  M.  L. 

Dr.  S.  M.  Hamilton  also  unearthed  the  his- 
tory of  one  Caleb  Smith,  who  enjoyed  quite  a 
reputation  as  a  "bonesetter"  and  was  the  first 
practitioner  in  this  part  of  the  state,  as  far  as 
we  know.  He  says :  "It  will  not  be  out  of  place 
in  the  medical  and  surgical  history  of  what  is 
now  known  as  Fayette  County  to  mention  the 
name  of  Caleb  Smith,  who  practiced  the  heal- 
ing art  among  the  first  white  people  of  the 
woods.  He  was  born  in  England  in  1775,  and 
came  to  New  England  -with  his  father,  an  Eng- 
lish surgeon,  about  the  year  1797.  The  young 
man  married  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  and  came  west 
and  settled  seven  miles  west  of  south  of  Conners- 
ville in  1807,  where  he  practiced  medicine  and 
surger}^  He  died  in  1821  and  was  buried  on  his 
farm." 

Grant  County  Medical  Society. 
On  the  16th  day  of  June,  1898,  Grant  County 
Medical  Society  held  its  anniversary  of  the  first 


120         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

half  century  of  its  existence.  At  this  meeting 
Dr.. A.  A.  Hamilton  read  a  very  interesting  re- 
port of  its  medical  history  during  the  half  cen- 
tury just  closed,  and  to  this  paper  I  am  indebted 
for  the  facts  contained  in  this  article. 

The  boundaries  of  Grant  County  were  estab- 
lished by  the  Legislature  in  February,  1831,  and 
in  May  of  the  same  year  the  county  seat  was 
located  at  its  present  site  by  the  commissioners 
and  named  in  honor  of  General  Francis  Marion. 

In  1830,  one  year  before  the  organization  of 
the  count}'.  Dr.  Henr}^  Buchman  installed  him- 
self in  a  small  cabin  on  the  banks  of  the  Missis- 
sinewa  Eiver  just  beyond  the  present  city  limits 
of  Marion.  He  was  the  first  physician  to  locate 
in  Grant  County.  In  the  transactions  for  1875 
Dr.  Lomax  gives  his  name  as  Buchanan,  but  this 
is  either  a  typographical  error  or  a  mistake  of 
Dr.  Lomax,  Buchman  being  the  correct  name. 
After  ministering  to  the  professional  wants  of 
the  sparsely  settled  neighborhood  for  a  few  years 
he  removed  to  the  west,  where  later  he  died. 

Dr.  Joseph  Cadwallader  was  the  second  physi- 
cian to  locate  in  the  county  and  first  in  the  town 
of  Marion,  somewhere  between  the  years  1831 
and  1833.  He  spent  some  two  or  three  years  in 
the  county  in  the  practice  of  his  j^rofession,  and 
he  and  his  wife  both  died  in  this  new  home. 

Dr.  Ezra  Stiles  Trask,  a  native  of  Vermont, 
was  the  third  physician  to  locate  in  Marion  in 
1833.  Dr.  Trask  originally  located  in  what  was 
then  known  as  Muncietown,  at  an  early  period 
in  its  history,  removing  to  Marion,  as  stated,  in 
the  3^ear  1833.     He  practiced  medicine  after  a 


MEDICAL    niSTORY    OF    INDIANA.         121 

sort  until  the  year  1839,  at  which  time  he  died, 
leaving  a  most  amiable  wife  and  two  very  prom- 
ising sons,  and  is  buried  somewhere  in  the  cem- 
etery at  Marion.  An  impression  prevailed  among 
the  physicians  at  Marion  that  he  was  a  graduate 
of  Dartmouth  Medical  College.* 

Dr.  John  Foster  (1813-1870),  a  native  of  High- 
land County,  Ohio,  located  in  Marion  in  1834 
and  entered  upon  the  active  duties  of  his  profes- 
sion with  fair  prospects  of  success.  Unfortu- 
nately he  yielded  to  the  allurements  held  out  by 
other  employments,  giving  himself  at  various 
times  to  the  mercantile  business,  the  sale  of 
drugs,  politics,  the  ministry,  etc.,  but  never  en- 
tirely abandoning  the  medical  profession.  He 
served  one  term  in  the  State  Senate  and  devoted 
several  years  of  his  life  to  the  work  of  the  itiner- 
ant ministry  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  and  at  the 
time  of  his  death  was  a  local  preacher  in  that 
denomination.  Dr.  Foster  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  the  Grant  County  Medical  Society.  He 
died  at  Warsaw,  Ind.,  in  the  fall  of  1870,  re- 
spected by  all  who  knew  him. 

Dr.  Samuel  St.  John,  a  native  of  Connecticut 
and  a  graduate  in  1815  of  a  ^N'ew  York  medical 
college,  came  to  Marion  in  1845,  after  having 
practiced  several  years  at  various  places  in  Kew 
York,  Ohio,  Alabama  and  Mississippi.  He  fol- 
lowed the  work   of  his  profession  here  for  the 

*  Possibly  this  is  an  error.  Mr.  Ernest  M.  Hopkins, 
secretary  of  Dartmouth  College,  writes  me  February  8, 
1907,  as  follows  :  "He  was  not  a  graduate  of  the  college. 
or  any  of  the  associated  schools.  We  have  no  early  records 
about  men  who  were  students  here  but  who  did  not  grad- 
uate. I  am,  therefore,  unable  to  say  whether  or  not  Dr. 
Tj-ask  ever  attended  the  college." — G.  W.  H.  K. 


122         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

ensuing  nine  years  and  then  removed  to  Lagro. 
In  1860  he  returned  to  Marion  and  engaged  in 
the  sale  of  drugs.  He  continued  in  this  business 
until  the  time  of  his  death,  Jan.  10,  1862.  I)r 
St.  John  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the 
Grant  County  Medical  Society  and  its  first  presi- 
dent. 

Dr.  W.  F.  Spence  was  born  in  West  Moreland 
County,  Pennsylvania,  and,  after  attending  a 
medical  college  in  Cincinnati,  located  in  Alexan- 
dria, this  state,  where  he  practiced  medicine  for 
some  years.  In  1846  he  removed  to  Jonesboro, 
where  he  sold  drugs  and,  when  able,  practiced 
his  profession. 

In  the  year  1847  Dr.  Samuel  S.  Home,  a  na- 
tive of  Scotland  and  a  graduate  of  the  University 
of  Edinburgh,  located  in  Jonesboro  and  at  once 
took  up  his  professional  duties.  He  was  un- 
selfish, a  wise  counselor,  and  an  experienced, 
learned  and  efficient  physician.  After  a  long 
and  useful  professional  life  he  died  April  19, 
1874. 

Dr.  John  A.  Meek  of  Wa3^ne  County  located 
in  Jonesboro  on  the  14th  day  of  February,  1848. 
The  doctor  served  as  Surgeon  of  the  Eighty- 
Mnth  Eegiment  Indiana  Volunteers  during  the 
Civil  War. 

Sketches  of  several  other  Grant  County  physi- 
cians will  appear  elsewhere. 

The  Grant  County  Medical  Society  was  organ- 
ized on  the  16th  day  of  June,  1848,  and  the 
following  physicians  were  present  at  the  forma- 
tion of  the  society:  Drs.  John  Foster,  J.  S. 
Shively,  Samuel  St.  John,  S.  D.  Ayres,  A.  W. 


MEDICAL    UT STORY    OF    IX DIANA.         123 

Henley,  William  Lomax  and  Constantino  Lomax, 
assembling  at  the  latter's  office.  At  the  next 
meeting,  held  July  5,  1848,  a  constitution  was 
adopted  and  officers  were  elected. 

A  review  of  the  records  of  the  society  will 
show  that  during  the  half  century  just  closed 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  names  have  been 
entered  upon  its  roll  of  membership.  Forty,  at 
least,  of  these  (1898)  have  already  joined  the 
silent  majority.  Others  have  lost  their  identity 
with  the  society  by  removing  to  other  fields  of 
labor,  while  a  few  have  been  expelled  from  the 
society  for  unprofessional  conduct. 

"In  the  seventies  the  Grant  County  Medical 
Society  purchased  a  hall  of  its  own  on  the  north 
side  of  the  public  square  in  Marion.  This  hall 
is  large  and  commodious,  is  nicely  carpeted,  and 
is  well  furnished  with  desks,  tables  and  chairs, 
and  all  that  is  necessary  for  the  use  and  comfort 
of  its  members.  An  expensive  microscope  and 
other  instruments  necessary  for  the  prosecution 
of  the  work  of  the  society  have  been  added  from. 
time  to  time,  until  now  the  society  is  the  owner 
of  much  valuable  property. 

"Many  years  ago  the  society  adopted  the  plan 
of  arranging  along  the  side  walls  of  the  audi- 
torium large  and  elegantly  framed  portrait 
paintings  of  its  deceased  presidents.  This  mark 
of  respect  on  the  part  of  the  association  has 
already  been  conferred  upon  quite  a  number  of 
the  older  members  of  the  society,  most  of  whom 
had  been  elected  one  or  more  times  to  fill  the 
presiding  officer's  chair. 


124         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IlsWIAI^A. 

"Tliat  the  society  has  made  good  use  of  its 
time  when  in  session  during  the  years  gone  by 
is  amply  attested  by  the  hundreds  of  medical 
essays  now  on  file  in  its  archives^  which  have 
been  read  and  discussed  in  its  hearing  during 
the  five  decades  just  ended,  and  the  thousands 
of  pages  of  closel}^  written  matter  to  be  found 
in  the  several  large  volumes  of  its  transactions, 
dealing,  for  the  most  part,  with  subjects  of  a 
professional  nature,  giving  additional  proof  of 
the  vast  amount  of  work  of  a  scientific  character 
which  has  been  accomplished  by  this  body  since 
its  organization." 

PlOXEER  PhTSICIAXS  OF  ClAY  CoUXTY. 
BY    G.    W.    FIXLET^    BRAZIL^    IXD. 

Eeplying  to  your  incjuiry  for  data  as  to  pioneer 
physicians  of  Clay  Count}^,  I  have  been  able, 
after  diligent  inquiry  and  search  of  old  records, 
to  collect  memoranda  as  to  several  whose  names 
do  not  appear  in  Transactions  of  the  State  So- 
ciety. 

The  very  earliest  of  whom  I  can  find  mention 
are  Drs.  Ephraim  Kester  and  Absalom  Briley, 
who  came  to  the  southern  part  of  what  is  now 
Clay  county  about  1818  or  1820,  from  Ken- 
tuck}^,  several  years  before  the  county  was  or- 
ganized. Although  never  located  in  to^vns,  they 
did  extensive  practice  among  early  settlers  over 
a  radius  of  twenty-five  miles  from  their  homes. 
They  died  in  1873  and  1878,  respectively,  each 
having  reached  the  age  of  eight3^-five. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         125 

Dr.  Nathaniel  Usher,  born  in  New  York,  1792 
died   in   Brazil,    Ind.,    1875,    after   forty   years' 
practice  in  this  county. 

Dr.  William  H.  Gifford,  born  in  Kentucky, 
1804,  came  to  Williamstown,  Ind.,  1839,  died  at 
Brazil,  1890,  after  fift3^-one  years'  practice,  leav- 
ing a  son,  Joseph  C,  and  a  grandson,  William 
H.,  as  worthy  successors  in  the  work. 

Dr.  W.  B.  Hawkins,  born  at  Washington,  Pa., 
1814,  died  in  Brazil,  Ind.,  1891,  after  forty-five 
years'  Avork  in  Indiana,  leaving  a  son,  Eobert 
W.,  a  physician  here. 

Dr.  James  M.  Price,  born  in  Virginia,  1827, 
died  in  Brazil,  1895,  having  practiced  in  this 
county  thirty-five  years.  His  son.  Dr.  John  Price, 
died  before  his  father. 

Dr.  John  Gilfillan  had  a  wide  practice  from 
Centerpoint  for  forty  years  in  the  early  history 
of  the  county  and  died  there  in  1876. 

Dr.  John  Williams  of  Bowling  Green,  still  liv- 
ing at  the  age  of  ninetj^-seven,  practiced  there 
from  1830  until  feebleness  compelled  his  retire- 
ment in  1900. 

I  regret  very  much  the  incompleteness  of  our 
early  records. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 


Early   Physicians   of   Franklin    County. — 

Medical   Men   of   Eipley    County. — 

Kosciusko    County. — White 

County. 

The  following  list  comprises  only  a  portion  of 
the  names  of  physicians  of  Franklin  County.  I 
am  under  obligations  to  Dr.  C.  H.  May  field,  of 
Brookville,  for  this  interesting  paper.  A  num- 
ber of  names  will  be  found  in  the  alphabetical 
list  elsewhere. 

George  Berry  (1811-1892)  was  born  in  Eock- 
ingham  County,  Virginia,  Feb.  17,  1811.  He 
began  practice  in  Brookville  in  1832,  and  for 
many  years  was  the  principal  surgeon  of  that  re- 
gion. With  one  exception  he  was  the  oldest 
practitioner  in  the  White  Water  Valley  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  March  19,  1892.  He  was  a 
surgeon  in  the  Mexican  war  with  the  Sixteenth 
Regiment,  IJ.  S.  Infantry.  He  was  elected  State 
Senator  in  1843-46,  and  again  in  1849.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1852. 

Thomas  W.  Colescott  (1816-1900)  was  born 
in  Caroline  County,  Maryland,  Feb.  8,  1816.  He 
practiced  in  Brookville  until  1878,  when  he  was 
compelled  to  retire  from  active  practice  on  ac- 
count of  ill  health.  He  held  the  chair  of  anat- 
omy in  the  University  of  Louisville  for  several 
years  and  was  surgeon  in  charge  of  the  hospitals 


MEDICAL  EIHTORY  OF  INDIANA.  127 

in  and  about  Louisville  during  the  Civil  war. 
He  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  best  surgeons 
of   Franklin   County. 

John  B.  Davis  "  (1807-1869)  was  born  at 
Brookfield,  X.  Y.,  July  2,  1807;  died  in  Brook- 
ville  July  14,  1869. 

Thomas  Gifford  (1816-1885)  was  born  at 
Penn  Yan,  Yates  Countv%  Xew  York,  Dec.  17. 
1816;  graduated  from  Ohio  Medical  College  in 
1846.  He  was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly 
of  the  state  in  1858  and  was  re-elected;  elected 
State  Senator  in  1862  and  re-elected;  died  June 
14,  1885. 

John  E.  Goodwin  (1820-1880)  was  born  at 
Brookville  July  15,  1820;  graduated  at  Depauw 
University  in  1845;  later  at  the  Ohio  Medical 
College;  practiced  in  Brookville  until  beginning 
of  the  Civil  war ;  he  was  surgeon  of  the  Thirty- 
Seventh  Eegiment  Indiana  Volunteers  until  close 
of  war;  then  for  eight  vears  was  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  Interior  under  Johnson  and  Grant; 
later  was  engaged  in  banking  business  until  his 
death.  May  3,  1880. 

Rufus  Haymond  (1805-1886)  was  born  in 
Clarksburg,  W.  Ya.,  June  5,  1805.  He  came 
to  Brookville  in  1826.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Legislature  and  was  a  naturalist  of 
national  reputation,  contributing  articles  of 
value.  He  had  charge  of  the  geological  survey 
of  Franklin  County  in  1869.  Died  at  Brook- 
ville July  29,  1886. 

Judah  Hinkley  (1801-1875)  was  born  in 
Massachusetts  March  10,  1801;  came  to  Indiana 
in  1820  and  began  practice  in  Springfield  town- 


128  MEDICAL  HISTORY  OF  INDIANA. 

ship,  Franklin  County,  and  continued  nntil 
1868,  when  he  retired  and  removed  to  Oxford, 
Ohio.     Died  July  6,  1875. 

John  H.  Qniek  (1818-1906)  was  born  near 
Brookville  Oct.  22,  1818;  began  practice  June  1, 
1840,  at  Drewersbnrg,  Franklin  County;  then 
Cedar  Grove,  in  same  county,  in  1842,  and  at 
Brookville  from  1854  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
Oct.  13,  1906. 

John  Cleaver  (1796-1865)  was  not  a  graduate 
of  a  medical  college. 

Cornelius  Cain  (1808-1903)  was  born  near 
Wilmington,  Dela.,  Aug.  1,  1808;  came  to  In- 
diana and  settled  in  Brookville  in  1827;  later 
practiced  medicine  at  Metamora  and  Laurel.  In 
1857  located  at  Clarksburg,  where  he  continued 
to  reside  until  his  death,  which  occurred  June 
28,  1903. 

Erasmus  Darwin  Crookshank*  (1807-1876) 
was  born  at  Whitehall,  N.  Y.,  April  28,  1807; 
located  at  Fairfield  about  1838;  was  elected  to 
the  State  Legislature  in  1844;  in  1849  he  re- 
moved to  Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  near  Cheviot, 
where  he  continued  to  practice  medicine  until 
his  death,  March  4,  1876. — Letter  from  Florence 
M.  Tait,  Cheviot,  a  granddaughter. 

The  following  physicians  practiced  in  Brook- 
ville at  the  dates  indicated: 

Level,  1810;  Johnson,  1816;  George  D.  Mur- 
dock,  1816;  J.  E.  Bush,  1819;  Joseph  Moffett, 
1818;  Temple  E.  Gayle,  1820;  John,  Jr.,  1821; 

*  I  give  the  speUing  of  the  granddaughter,  but  notice 
that  in  other  instances  it  is  spelled  "Cruikshank." 
— G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    IIIHTORY    OF    INDIANA.         129 

Morris,  1821;  Isaac  G.  John,  1824;  B.  S.  Noble, 
1830;  T.  J.  Cogley,  1836;  Whipple,  1836; 
Thomas  Kennedy,  1847;  William  Coster,  1847, 
and  Joseph  Chitwood,  1838. 

Medical  Men  of  Ripley  County. 

In  reply  to  an  inquiry  Dr.  James  Anderson, 
of  Versailles,  has  kindly  furnished  me  with 
some  records  of  the  early  physicians  of  that 
county. 

He  says  that  he  was  well  acquainted  with  Dr. 
W.  T.  S.  Comett,  who  practiced  here  until  about 
1868,  when  he  removed  to  Madison. 

Dr.  James  K.  Francis  practiced  at  Cross 
Plains,  Eipley  County,  Indiana,  from  1844  to 
about  1852,  dying  there  during  that  year. 

Dr.  Eichard  B.  Conn  practiced  in  Eipley 
County  about  1848  to  1850,  when  he  removed  to 
Champaign,  111.,  and  practiced  there  for  some 
years. 

Drs.  Cornett,  Francis,  Alexander  J.  Mullen 
and  Conn  were  present  at  the  formation  of  the 
State  Medical  Society  in  June,  1849. 

Dr.  William  Anderson  practiced  medicine  and 
surgery  at  Versailles  from  1839  to  1861,  and 
was  surgeon  of  the  Thirty-seventh  Eegiment  In- 
diana Volunteers  for  three  years  and  staff  sur- 
geon one  year  longer.  At  the  close  of  the  war 
he  returned  to  this  place  and  practiced  from 
1865  to   1880. 

Drs.  Alexander  J.  Mullen  and  Bernard  F. 
Mullen,  brothers,  practiced  at  Napoleon  for 
many  years.  Dr.  Bernard  F.  Mullen  was  Colonel 
of  the  Thirty-fifth  Eegiment  Indiana  Volunteers 


130         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IlsWIAl^A. 

and  Dr.  Alexander  J.  Mullen  was  surgeon  of  the 
same  regiment.  Dr.  Bernard  died  at  Indianap- 
olis some  years  after  the  close  of  the  Civil  war. 
Dr.  Alexander  went  to  St.  Lonis  after  he  came 
from  the  army  and  practiced  there  for  some 
3'ears,  dying  in  that  place. 

The  late  Major  Jonathan  W.  Gordon  practiced 
medicine  at  Versailles  during  the  years  1846 
and  1847.  Later  he  took  np  the  study  and  prac- 
tice of  law. 

Kosciusko  Cou^^ty  Medical  Society. 

I  am  indebted  to  Dr.  C.  T^.  Howard,  Secretary 
of  the  Kosciusko  County  Medical  Society,  for  the 
following  notes,  which  he  gleaned  from  the  "New 
Historical  Atlas  of  Kosciusko  County." 

At  the  session  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
1834-5  the  boundaries  of  Kosciusko  County  were 
defined  and  established.  It  was  named  by  Hon. 
John  B.  Chapman  after  Thaddeus  Kosciusko,  the 
young  Polish  nobleman  of  distinguished  family, 
who  aided  the  American  cause  during  the  war  of 
the  Eevolution,  being  one  of  General  Washing- 
ton's staff  officers. 

The  Kosciusko  Count}^  Medical  Society  was 
incorporated  Jan.  21,  1847,  by  the  General  As- 
sembly of  the  State  of  Indiana.  Among  the  first 
members  of  the  society  were  Drs.  Eowland  Wil- 
lard,  G.  W.  Stacey,  J.  K.  Leedy,  Edward  E. 
Parks,  William  E.  Sarber,  D.  Bowman,  S.  C. 
Gray,  L.  B.  Boggs,  J.  A.  Chandler,  L.  E.  Terry, 
William  Parks,  Henry  Gilbert,  F.  W.  Taylor, 
John  Jackson,  Z.  C.  Johnson,  A.  B.  Grichfield, 
E.  M.  Kendall  and  G.  W.  Kosdick. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         131 

Webber,  Irwin  W.  (1846-1907)  commenced 
the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Warsaw,  Kos- 
ciusko County,  in  1870.  For  a  time  he  was 
United  States  Pension  Examiner  at  Warsaw.  He 
was  President  of  the  Kosciusko  County  Medical 
Society  in  1887,  and  was  Secretary  of  the  So- 
ciety at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Woolley,  Amos  (1829-1899)  came  to  Kos- 
ciusko County  in  1857,  practicing  medicine  at 
Palestine.  In  1869  he  removed  to  Warsaw.  In 
1866  he  assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  Med- 
ical College  at  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  and  afterward 
graduated  with  honor  from  that  institution. 

White  Couxty  Medical  Society. 

Drs.  Grant  Goodwin  and  F.  E.  Lister,  of 
Monticello,  have  furnished  me  the  following  in- 
formation concerning  physicians  of  White 
County  who  have  not  been  heretofore  reported 
in  the  Transactions. 

The  White  County  Medical  Society  was  or- 
ganized in  April,  1862.  The  charter  members 
were  Drs.  Hamen  and  Anderson,  Monticello; 
Eichardson,  Monon;  Thomas,  Eeynolds,  and 
Medaris,  of  Brookston. 

Dr.  W^illiam  H.  Ball  was  born  in  Henry 
County,  Kentucky,  Jan.  23,  1823.  He  began 
practice  at  Battle  Ground,  Ind.,  about  1851.  He 
Avas  a  graduate  of  a  medical  college  at  Louisville, 
Ky.  He  practiced  in  Brookston  from  1856  to 
1880,  then  moved  to  California,  where  he  died  in 
1890. 

Dr.  Timothy  Taylor  attended  first  session  of 
lectures  at  Starling  Medical  College  in  1847  and 


132         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIAIS^A. 

1848.  He  began  to  practice  in  Brookston  about 
1850,  and  left  here  March  1,  1859.  He  died  in 
1908,  near  Eichmond,  Ind. 

Dr.  John  Medaris  came  to  Brookston  in 
March,  1859,  and  has  practiced  here  ever  since. 
He  was  born  Oct.  22,  1814.  Dr  Brockway  writes 
nie  Jan.  30,  1911 :  "Dr.  Medaris  is  still  alive  and 
feeling  good.^^* 

Older  Physicians  of  Steuben"  County. 

I  am  under  obligations  to  Dr.  Mary  Ritter,  of 
Angola,  for  the  following  list  of  pioneer  physi- 
cians of  Steuben  County: 

Drs.  James  McConnell,  Angola  (1810-1844) ; 
George  W.  McConnell,  Angola  (1816-1894)  ;  L. 
E.  Carver,  Angola   (1806-1889)  ;  J.  C.  Kmisey, 

Angola      (1819 )  ;     C.     D.     Eice,     Angola 

(1828-1875)  ;  William  Weicht,  Angola  (1822- 
1889);  W.  A.  Wood,  Angola  (1827-1868);  M. 
R  Morse,  Angola  (1814-1898). 


*  I  have  departed  from  my  usual  rule  of  omitting  liv- 
ing physicians,  but  this  man.  at  the  age  of  ninety-six, 
engaged  in  an  active  practice  of  medicine,  deserves  this 
little  recognition. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


CHAPTEH  XY. 


Early  Medical  History  of  Fouxtaix  County. 
Early  Physiciaxs  of  Jacksox  Couxty. 

Dr.  George  Eowlancl,  Covington,  Ind.,  has 
transmitted  to  me  a  very  interesting  paper  on 
the  medical  history  of  Fountain  County,  and  I 
only  regret  that  the  length  of  the  paper  prevents 
the  complete  publication  of  the  same. 

On  Dec.  30,  1825,  the  Legislature  passed  a  law 
creating  Fountain  County.  On  the  first  Monday 
in  May,  1826,  the  boundaries  of  the  county  were 
fixed  and  the  county  seat  established  at  Cov- 
ington. 

The  following  named  physicians  met  in  Cov- 
ington on  the  first  Thursday  in  April,  1867,  and 
organized  the  Fountain  County  Medical  Society : 
Drs.  C.  Y.  Jones,  President,  Samuel  J.  Weldon, 
Secretary;  C.  D.  Watson,  G.  S.  Jones,  William 
Colvert,  William  C.  Cole  and  George  Eowland. 

Dr.  John  Hamilton,  born  in  Saratoga  County, 
New  York, -Jan.  7,  1800,  came  to  Covington 
March  31,  1827,  and  made  it  his  permanent 
home.  He  was  the  first  physician  to  locate  in 
Fountain  County.  He  was  a  pioneer  and  a  busy 
practitioner  of  medicine,  riding  on  horseback 
from  ten  to  sixty  miles  a  day,  along  by-paths,  as 
there  were  few  roads.  Milk  sickness  and  fever 
and  ague  prevailed.  Medicines  were  few  and 
commanded  a  high  price  and  were  brought  from 
Cincinnati  on  a  steamboat  up  the  Wabash  Eiver 


134         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

to  Covington.  Dr.  Hamilton  was  a  successful 
physician^  a  graduate  of  the  medical  college  at 
Burlington,  Yt.  He  also  started  the  first  drug 
store  in  this  county  at  Covington. 

Dr.  John  Crawford  came  to  Fountain  County 
in  1828.  He  was  educated  in  Philadelphia  and 
a  graduate  of  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio.  He 
died  Sept.  29,  1847.  Dr.  Crawford  was  well 
versed  in  medicine  and  a  successful  practitioner 
and  a  man  of  few  words. 

Dr.  Hitchcock  was  an  early  pioneer  and  came 
to  this  city  in  1829,  but  soon  afterward  went  to 
the  Black  Hawk  war. 

Dr.  Jesse  Bowen  practiced  medicine  in  the 
county  from  1829  to  1840. 

Dr.  Joseph  Jones  came  in  1832.  He  was  a 
peculiar  man,  tall  and  the  people  nicknamed  him 
"Long  Jones."  There  were  several  other  Dr. 
Jones,  and  Dr.  "Long  Jones"  tried  to  have  the 
Legislature  change  his  name  to  Talbott,  the 
maiden  name  of  his  mother. 

Dr.  Keely  came  in  1833  and  remained  but  a 
short  time,  when  he  removed  to  Iowa. 

Dr.  John  S.  Jones,  nicknamed  "Picayune," 
came  in  1834.  He  was  a  druggist,  but  practiced 
medicine  to  some  extent. 

Dr.  Lorenzo  Eush  cam^e  to  this  county  in  1840. 
He  was  a  good  physician,  scientific  and  well  ed- 
ucated. He  was  tall,  dignified,  gentlemanly  and 
a  popular  physician. 

Dr.  Irish  came  in  1844  and  was  a  successful 
physician,  serving  later  as  a  surgeon  in  the  Civil 
war. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         135 

Dr.  Eeuben  M.  Hill  came  to  Fountain  County 
in  1847  and  located  at  Covington.  He  was  a 
scientific  physician  and  well  versed  in  medicine. 
He  had  an  extreme  disgust  for  quackery,  en- 
joyed a  large  practice  and  was  quite  a  money 
maker.  He  was  a  bachelor.  Later  in  life  he 
was  a  great  sufferer  from  a  chronic  disease,  from 
which  he  secured  no  permanent  relief,  and  on 
July  5.  1880,  at  the  noon  hour,  while  his  nurse 
had  gone  for  a  luncheon,  committed  suicide, 
shooting  himself  through  the  head. 

Dr.  Jehu  Adkins  read  medicine  with  Dr. 
"Long''  Jones,  above  mentioned;  graduated  in 
Chicago,  and  located  in  Jackson  Township  in 
18-17.  He  was  a  popular  physician  and  had  a 
great  reputation  in  the  treatment  of  milk  sick- 
ness, which  was  then  very  prevalent;  also  se- 
cured quite  a  reputation  by  the  performance  of 
an  operation  for  club  foot  upon  a  child  six 
months  old.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was 
the  owner  of  nearly  twelve  hundred  acres  of 
land,  bought  at  a  low  price,  and  subsequently 
increased  in  value  until  he  amassed  a  fortune. 

Drs.  0.  S.  Maxwell  and  Bell  located  at  Eob- 
roy  in  1833.  Dr.  Cox  located  at  Portland  in 
1830.  Dr.  Scott  located  at  :Nrewton  in  1834.  Dr. 
Worthington  located  at  Attica  in  1830.  Dr.  Eob- 
ert  Stevens  located  near  old  Chambersburg  dur- 
ing the  forties.  Dr.  Knight  located  in  old  Cham- 
bersburg before  the  Civil  War.  He  was  very 
deaf  and  always  rode  in  an  old-fashioned  gig. 
Dr.  Greenwood  came  in  the  forties  and  prac- 
ticed at  Eobroy.  Dr.  Marquam,  an  eccentric 
man,  located  in  old  Chambersburg  during  the 
Civil  War.     He  practiced  in  the  southeast  part 


136         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

of  the  county  from  1855  to  1860.  He  was  in- 
dicted for  murder  by  producing  an  abortion.  In 
the  trial  he  was  prosecuted  and  defended  by  emi- 
nent counsel  and  was  acquitted. 

Dr.  Newton  Spinning  probably  practiced  med- 
icine longer  than  any  other  physician  in  Foun- 
tain County — a  period  of  more  than  fifty  years. 
He  died  of  pneumonia,  result  of  lagrippe,  on 
Feb.  11,  1890. 

Dr.  Thomas  Eowland,  my  father,  was  born  in 
Loudon  Count}^,  Virginia,  July  25,  1810,  and 
read  medicine  with  Dr.  Crawford,  already  men- 
tioned. He  located  in  Hillsboro  in  1839,  and 
afterward  located  at  old  Chambersburg,  and  was 
a  busy  and  successful  practitioner  of  medicine 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  August,  1864. 
He  was  well  versed  in  medicine  and  had  an  ex- 
tensive practice  in  obstetrics  and  diseases  of 
women.  He  was  a  fine  conversationalist  and 
loved  to  mingle  with  medical  men. 

Dr.  Caleb  V.  Jones  came  to  Covington  in  the 
fall  of  1840  and  practiced  medicine  for  forty 
years.    Dr  Jones  was  surgeon  in  the  civil  war. 

Dr.  William!  Colvert  located  near  Stone  Bluff; 
was  a  distinguished  pioneer  physician  of  Foun- 
tain County.  He  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1819,  and 
came  to  this  county  during  his  boyhood,  attended 
the  University  of  Greencastle  and  afterward  read 
medicine  with  Dr.  Crawford.  He  was  a  suc- 
cessful physician  from  1847  to  his  death,  which 
occurred  a  few  years  ago.  Before  reading  medi- 
cine he  taught  for  some  years  in  the  public 
schools,  and  his  most  noted  pupil  was  the  Hon. 
D.  W.  Voorhees. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIANA.         137 

Dr.  Joseph  Ogden  came  to  this  county  in  the 
early  forties.  He  was  an  excellent  physician. 
Dr.  AYaite  located  in  this  county  at  an  early 
date.  Dr.  Bryant  was  also  an  early  pioneer.  Dr. 
Chester  Clark  came  at  an  early  date  to  Coving- 
toU;,  but  in  later  years  abandoned  the  practice 
for  the  nursery  business.  Dr.  McElwee  came  to 
the  county  after  the  Civil  War.  Dr.  John  S. 
Riffle  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  1849.  He 
practiced  medicine  at  ISTewton  and  in  Yeeders- 
burg,  and  was  a  member  of  the  United  States 
pension  board  after  1867.  He  was  an  assistant 
surgeon  in  the  Fortieth  Eegiment,  Indiana  Vol- 
unteers. Drs.  Miles  and  Sherman  were  practi- 
tioners at  one  time  at  Newtown. 

Dr.  James  C.  Burlington  graduated  in  1877 
from  Cincinnati  Medical  College.  Located  at 
Attica  in  1878.  Died  several  years  ago.  Dr.  A. 
L.  Whitehall  practiced  near  Newtown  in  1832. 
and  later  at  Attica  until  his  death.  Dr.  Samuel 
Fullenwider  at  an  early  date  practiced  at  Xew- 
town.  Dr.  Leach  at  one  time  practiced  at  At- 
tica; removed  to  Crawfordsville  and  later  to 
Park  County.  Dr.  George  C.  Hays  located  at 
Hillsboro  and  died  there  after  a  long  practice. 
He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Medical  College  of 
Indiana.  Dr.  John  AY.  Mock,  a  graduate  of  a 
medical  college  of  Ohio,  1863,  was  a  surgeon  in 
the  One  Hundred  and  Eleventh  Eegiment,  Ohio 
Volunteers. 

Dr.  Samuel  J.  Weldon  was  born  in  London, 
England,  June,  1801,  and  graduated  in  New 
York  City.  He  was  well  versed  in  medicine,  a 
fine  conversationalist  and  a  prominent  druggist. 


138         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

He  was  present  at  the  formation  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society  in  1849,  and  also  at  the 
organization  of  the  Fountain  Connty  Medical 
Society  in  April,  1867.    Died  in  1881. 

Dr.  Samuel  I.  Mock  graduated  at  the  Medical 
College  of  Ohio  in  1874;  came  to  Covington  in 
in  1879,  and  afterward  removed  to  Iowa,  where 
he  died  shortly  afterward.  Dr.  C.  D.  Watson,  a 
graduate  of  Eush  Medical  College,  came  to  Cov- 
ington, was  present  at  the  organization  of  the 
Fountain  County  Medical  Societ}^,  and  afterward 
removed  to  California.  Dr.  John  T.  Wells  prac- 
ticed in  Yeedersburg  in  1876.  Dr.  A.  J.  McLel- 
land  practiced  at  Yeedersburg  for  some  years 
and  died  in  that  village. 

Early  Physicians  of  Jacks on^  County. 

For  the  facts  in  the  histories  of  the  following 
physicians  I  am  indebted  to  Dr.  A.  C  Osterman, 
of  Seymour,  Ind.,  the  paper  being  forwarded  to 
me  by  Dr.  G.  H.  Kaniman,  Secretary  of  the 
Jackson  County  Medical  Society, 

The  history  of  the  early  physicians  of  Jack- 
son County  is  not  very  well  known.  Tradition 
tells  of  Dr.  Dudley,  who  located  in  this  county 
and  platted  the  village  of  Dudleytov/n  in  1810. 
While  the  more  populous  parts  of  the  county  of 
that  time,  Vallonia  and  Brownstown,  certainly 
had  physicians,  yet  nothing  authentic  is  known 
of  their  names. 

Dr.  Samuel  Wert,  of  German  parentage,  was 
born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1794;  graduated  from 
Jefferson  Medical  College  in  1810;  after  an 
eventful  career  in  the  Spanish  navy  and  in  Mex- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         130 

ico,  located  in  Brownstown  in  1825,  where  he 
practiced  successfully  until  1863,  the  year  of  his 
death. 

Dr.  Solomon  Jackson,  the  next  physician  of 
whom  we  hear,  practiced  in  Eockford  in  1835. 

Drs.  James  Crippen  and  David  Vanuise  were 
at  Eeddington  about  1838.  The  late  Dx.  Wilson 
located  near  the  present  village  of  Sparksville 
about  the  same  time.  Two  more  physicians  were 
at  Vallonia  whose  names  are  not  known  to  the 
author.  This  was  about  the  number  of  physi- 
cians who  were  located  in  the  county  up  to  1840. 
With  the  increase  of  population  between  the  for- 
ties and  fifties  physicians  began  to  locate  in  the 
county. 

Dr.  James  H.  Green  began  practice  in  Dudley- 
town  in  1846.  Dr.  Stage  then  located  at  what  is 
now  known  as  Sidney  about  the  same  time. 

The  first  county  society  was  organized  on  April 
13,  1852.  Dr.  Wert  was  its  first  president,  Dr. 
D.  B.  Hillis  vice-president.  Dr.  J.  L.  Eoe  record- 
ing secretary,  and  Dr.  E.  Long  librarian.  Other 
members  present  were  Drs.  Ford,  Morgan  and 
Bain.  At  a  meeting  two  months  later  Drs.  John 
Williamson,  James  H.  Green,  C.  T.  Williamson, 
J.  T.  Monroe,  E.  D.  Wert  and  S.  H.  Charlton 
were  elected  to  membership. 

Dr.  Brand,  a  graduate  of  Vienna  and  a  pupil 
of  the  elder  Eokitansky,  located  at  Eockford 
in  1848.  Dr.  Eoesgen,  a  graduate  of  Heidelberg 
and  Bonn,  located  at  Dudleytown  in  1851;  both 
these  men  were  well  grounded  in  medicine  and 
were  gentlemen  of  remarkable  diagnostic  talents, 
who  added  credit  to  their  profession,  as  well  as 


140         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

the  profession  of  southern  Indiana^  during  their 
sojourn  among  the  people  of  Jackson  County. 
These  were  all  the  members  of  the  profession,  as 
far  as  the  author  is  able  to  say,  that  were  lo- 
cated in  the  county  up  to  1852. 

During  the  sixties  Drs.  Shoots  and  Eodman 
were  at  Freetown,  Drs.  Joseph  Davis,  Bain  and 
Shields  at  Cortland,  Dr.  Fields  at  Tampico,  Dr. 
\¥ells  at  Clear  Spring,  Drs.  Cummings  and  Gib- 
son at  Houston,  Drs.  John  T.  Shields,  Newkirk 
and  J.  D.  Monroe  located  at  Seymour.  Dr. 
Tinsh  began  the  practice  of  medicine  about  the 
same  time,  but  his  first  location  is  unknown.  Dr. 
Eobertson  located  at  Yallonia,  and  a  physician 
whose  name  is  unknown  practiced  for  a  few 
years  at  what  is  now  known  as  l^ewry. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Board  of  County  Commis- 
sioners in  June,  1862,  a  petition  referring  to 
the  pauper  practice  of  the  county  was  presented 
to  the  board,  signed  by  the  following  physicians, 
then  in  active  practice  in  the  county,  but  not 
all  members  of  the  county  society :  Drs.  Wert,  L. 
J.  Stage,  C.  T.  Williamson,  L.  Z.  Shewmaker, 
Jacob  Boaz,  T.  A.  Williamson,  J.  H.  Payne, 
Fields,  Smith,  Kimberline,  Maxwell,  Blaiid,  Sap- 
per, Hatfield,  Daniels,  Eamsey,  Eobertson,  Green 
and  Bain.  These  men  were  all  in  active  practice 
in  this  county. 

In  those  days  there  were  scarcely  any  well  de- 
fined roads  and  patients  were  far  apart.  Visits 
were  made  on  horseback  and  the  ample  saddle 
bags  were  always  the  badge  of  the  doctor.  It 
was  before  the  days  of  refinement  of  pharmacy. 
Eoots,  herbs  and  barks  were  the  armamentarium 


MEDICAL    HLSTORY    OF    INDIANA.         141 

of    the   practitioner.      Calomel    and    jalap    were 
dealt  unsparingly.    The  bitter  Peruvian  bark  and 
the  lancet  were  their  only  fever  remedies.     An- 
esthesia  was  unknown;  but  this  did  not   deter 
them  from  performing  major  and  minor  opera- 
tions.    They  worked  sometimes  under  the  most 
trying  conditions.     Those  early  days  were  truly 
heroic  ones;  no  less  for  the  physician  than  the 
patient.    Yet,  with  all  this  seeming  primitiveness 
and  the   limited  means   of  practicing  medicine 
and  surgery,  these  men  were  successful  and  their 
patients  lived  to  bless  them.     The   earlier   and 
older  ones  have  all  passed  away.     Some  rest  in 
unmarked  graves.     i(o  lordly  monuments  com- 
memorate the  spot  made  sacred  as  the  resting 
place   of   these   heroes;   yet  heroes    these    men 
were.     They  performed  the  most  heroic  service, 
and  oftentimes  without  reward,   at  the  call  of 
their  patients,  at  any  hour,  in  storm  and  stress 
and  in  midnight  darkness,  with  nothing  to  guide 
them,  and  oftentimes  straying  from  the  road  or 
path ;  yet  they  performed  these  labors  with  pleas- 
ure and  their  reward  was  only  the  welfare  and 
health  of  their  patients.     Truly  they  bore  the 
cross  to  attain  the  crown  ;  the  justice  of  a  better 
world  will  be  their  reward. 


CHAPTEE  XVI. 


FORMATIOX     AXD      GeOWTH     OF      OUR     PRESENT 

State  Medical  Association. — List  of 

Membership  from   Formation  to 

THE  Year  1860. 

Inasmuch  as  but  one  or  two  copies  of  the  early 
Transactions  of  onr  State  Medical  Society  are 
known  to  be  in  existence^  and  these  exposed  to 
the  dangers  of  fire  or  decay  of  time,  I  think  it 
proper  to  reprint  some  historical  data  that  ought 
not  to  be  lost  or  forgotten.* 

I  have  access  to  the  copies  in  the  Indianapolis 
City  Library.  These  were  generously  presented 
to  the  library  by  Dr.  L.  D.  Waterman  on  Dec.  1, 
1898. 

I  find  no  evidence  that  a  formal  or  informal 
call  w^as  made  for  the  meeting  to  assemble  at 
Indianapolis,  but  presume  such  a  request  had 
been  made.f    I  quote  as  follows: 

"The  State  Medical  (convention  assembled  in 
Wesley  Chapel,  at  Indianapolis,  on  Wednesday, 
June  6,  1849,  at  10  o'clock  a.  m.  A  temporary 
organization   was  effected  by   calling   Dr.   John 

*  Since  1904,  "Society"  is  changed  to  "Association." 
t  Since  writing  the  above,  I  find  tliat  notice  had  been 
given  for  such  a  meeting  :  "Indianapolis  had  a  lo'cal  Medi- 
cal Society,  and  in  May,  1849,  a  call  was  sent  out  by  it 
for  a  State  Convention  the  following  month.  Private 
letters  were  sent  by  the  members  to  their  medical  friends 
over  the  State  inviting  them  to  attend  the  meeting  to  be 
held  June  6,  1849."  Dr.  W.  H.  Wishard,  President's  ad- 
dress.— Trans.  1889,  p.  17. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


.2  « 


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144         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

Sanders  to  the  chair  and  appointing  Dr.  John 
S.  Bobbs  Secretary/^ 

Some  discussions  have  occurred  as  to  who  was 
the  first  President  of  the  State  Society,  but  that 
subject  is  easily  determined  by  a  reference  to 
the  Transactions.*  The  first  copy  shows  the  title 
page  as  follows :  "Proceedings  of  the  State  Med- 
ical Convention  of  Indiana,  held  at  Indianapolis, 
June,  1849.  Indianapolis:  Printed  by  John  D. 
Defrees,  1849."  It  is  a  pamphlet  of  fourteen 
pages. 

It  will  be  observed  that  the  meeting  was  styled 
"Convention,"  and  not  "Society."  In  fact,  it 
was  not  regarded  by  those  present  as  a  regular 
meeting  of  the  society,  but  rather  an  assembly 
for  the  organization  of  a  state  society.  It  was 
the  Declaration  of  Independence  for  medical  so- 
cieties in  Indiana ! 

The  title  page  of  the  second  copy  of  Transac- 
tions reads  quite  differently :  "Proceedings  of 
the  First  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Society,  held  in  the  city  of  Indianapolis, 
May,  1850.  Indianapolis:  Printed  by  Elder  & 
Harkness,  1850."  This  is  a  pamphlet  containing 
thirt5^-two  pages.  It  is  styled  a  "Society"  now, 
and  is  recorded  as  the  "First."  This  is  the  be- 
ginning for  numbering  the  other  Transactions. 

At  the  "convention"  Dr.  John  H.  Sanders  was 
called  temporarily  to  the  chair.     Later  a  perma- 

*  Those  interested  in  ttiis  discussion  are  referred  to 
obituary  of  Dr.  Cornett,  Ind.  Med.  Jour..  Vol.  xv,  p.  515, 
also,  "The  First  President  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical 
Society. — Letters  from  Dr.  Cornett's  son,  from  the  late  Dr. 
John  S.  Bobbs  (Dec.  10,  1849).  and  from  Dr.  Wm.  A.  Mac- 
Coy,  of  Madison,  Ind.'" — lb.,  Vol.  xvi,  p.  23. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         145 

nent  organization  was  effected  and  Dr.  Living- 
ston Dunlap  was  made  permanent  chairman.  He 
delivered  no  address.  At  this  meeting  a  commit- 
tee of  one  from  each  district  represented  was  ap- 
pointed to  nominate  officers  for  the  "society." 
Drs.  Bullard,  Kersey,  Eyan,  Florer  and  Mullen 
were  appointed,  who  reported  the  following 
named  gentlemen  for  the  respective  offices,  to 
which  the  convention  elected  them:  President, 
Dr.  W.  T.  S.  Cornett;  Vice-Presidents,  Drs.  Asa- 
bel  Clapp,  Nathan  Johnson,  Livingston  Dunlap 
and  Uriah  Farquhar;  Secretary,  Dr.  John  S. 
Bobbs ;  Treasurer,  Dr.  John  L.  Mothershead. 

The  society  convened  at  Indianapolis  on  May 
15,  1850.  Dr.  Cornett  presided  and  gave  an  ad- 
dress on  the  subject,  "Eise,  Progress,  Present 
State  and  Future  Prospects  of  Medical  Science." 
It  was  delivered  in  the  evening  at  "candle  light." 

,  The  following  is  a  list  of  the  names  of  physi- 
cians at  the  convention  in  1849  : 

Dr.  Alexander  J.  Mullen,  of  Xapoleon. 

Dr.  Nathan  Johnson,  of  Cambridge  City. 

Dr.  Yierling  Kerse}^,  of  Milton,  Wayne 
County. 

Dr.  Thomas  W.  Florer,  of  Alamo,  Montgom- 
ery County. 

Dr.  John  Hunt,  of  Madison  County. 

Dr.  Townsend  Evan,  of  Anderson. 

Dr.  E.  J.  Patterson,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  David  Hutchinson,  of  Mooresville,  Morgan 
County. 

Dr.  Charles  Wallace,  of  Belleville,  Hendricks 
County. 

Dr.  W.  E.  Smith,  of  Cumberland. 


146         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Dr.  H.  V.  V.  Johnson^  of  Broad  Eipple. 

Dr.  John  H.  Sanders^  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  W.  C.  Thompson,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Livingston  Dunlap,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  William  H.  Wishard,  of  Johnson  County. 

Dr.  John  L.  Mothershead,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Alois  D.  Gall,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  C.  S.  Eamsey,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  George  W.  Mears,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Eobert  Cnrran,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Talbott  Bnllard,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  John  Nntt,  of  Marion  County. 

Dr.  Charles  Parry,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Andrew  M.  Hunt,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  John  S.  Bobbs,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  David  Funkhonser,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  Patrick  H.  Jameson,  of  Indianapolis. 

Dr.  John  M.  Gaston,  of  Indianapolis. 

On  the  second  day,  June  7,  the  committee  on 
credentials  reported  favorably  upon  the  following 
named  persons,  and  they  were  admitted  as  mem- 
bers: 

Drs.  Asahel  Clapp,  John  Sloan,  S.  E.  Leonard, 
P.  S.  Shields,  William  Cooper,  William  G.  Sin  ex, 
William  A.  Clapp,  William  A.  Scribner  and  H. 
M.  Dowling,  of  New  Albany ;  Chester  G.  Ballard, 
of  Waveland;  Henkle  and  Farquhar,  of  Wabash; 
William  F.  Collum,  of  Jeff ersonville ;  James  S. 
Athon,  of  Charleston;  James  S.  Harrison,  of  In- 
dianapolis; Thomas  W.  Fry,  James  Tichnor,  Jo- 
seph Allen  and  Oliver  P.  Mahan,  of  Crawfords- 
ville;  George  M.  Huggins,  of  Darlington;  Wil- 
liam J.  Byers,  of  Frankfort;  White,  of  Prairie- 
ville;  John  M.  Bo5^d,  of  Thorntown;  Samuel  J. 
Weldon,  of  Covington;  Hunt,  of  Laporte;  Wil- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.  147 

liam  T.  S.  Cornett,  James  K.  Francis,  Richard 
B.  Conn  and  John  Lewis,  of  Eipley  County; 
Isaac  Finley  and  Homer  T.  Hinman,  of  Colum- 
bus; Wiley,  of  Richmond;  Foster,  James  D.  Max- 
well and  Robert  C.  Hamil,  of  Bloomington;  S. 
Judkins  and  J.  A.  Pegg,  of  JS^ew  Garden,  Wayne 
County;  Joseph  H.  D.  Rogers,  William  Davidson. 
Holcomb,  J.  W.  Mullen  and  B.  F.  Mullen,  of 
Napoleon;  Eldridge,  Myron  H.  Harding,  Taylor 
and  Jonathan  W.  Gordon,  of  Dearborn  County; 
Jeremiah  H.  Brower,  of  Lawrenceburg ;  John  W. 
Moodey,  John  L.  Armington  and  George  W. 
New,  of  Greensburg;  T.  W.  Cowgill,  Albert  G. 
Preston  and  H.  E.  Talbott,  of  Greencastle;  Jo- 
seph C.  Ardery,  of  Decatur  County;  Jefferson 
Helm,  of  Rush  County,  and  Willis  W.  Hitt,  of 
Vincennes. 

The  physicians  named  in  the  preceding  para- 
graph came  to  the  state  convention  on  the  second 
day  and  were  received  by  credentials.  Unfortu- 
natel}^,  in  the  hurry  and  bustle  of  business,  in 
almost  every  case  the  Christian  name  or  initial 
was  omitted.  I  have  sent  out  numerous  letters, 
besides  a  request  in  The  Journal,  for  assistance 
in  correcting  the  omissions.  Inasmuch  as  thev 
were  present  at  the  first  m-eeting,  I  felt  anxious 
to  preserve  their  full  names.  I  have  succeeded  in 
nearly  all.  I  think  some  mistakes  have  occurred. 
Dr.  T.  C.  Loukes,  of  Prairieton,  has  dili- 
gently sought  for  Dr.  "White/'  accredited  to 
Prairieville,*  and  is  convinced  that  no  phy- 
sician   of     that    name    resided    there    in    1849. 

c^/J^.V^^  August  number  of  The  Journal  of  the  Indiana 
h>tate  Medical  Association,  Dr.  White  was  erroneously  ac- 
credited to  "Prairieton."  instead  of  "Prairieville."  The 
latter  was  in  Clinton  county,  and  was  discontinued  as  a 
postoffice  Aug.  9,  1856. 


148         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

^^Sloan^^  of  Crawfordsville  appears  in  the  minutes 
erroneously  for  Dr.  John  Sloan  of  New  Albany, 
I  am  of  the  opinion  that  there  are  other  errors  of 
location.  The  minutes  show  the  names  of  eighty- 
four  persons  present  at  this  convention. 

Sixty  years  have  passed  since  that  body  of 
grand  men  met  in  Indianapolis  and  laid  the 
foundation  for  our  present  efficient  State  Med- 
ical Association.  Only  two  of  that  number  are 
alive  toda}^.  Dr.  Patrick  H.  Jameson^  born  in 
Jefferson  County,  Indiana,  April  18,  1824,  and 
Dr.  William  H.  Wishard,  bom  in  Nicholas  Coun- 
ty, Iventuck}^,  Jan.  17,  1816,  Both  are  residents 
of  Indianapolis. 

I  am  sure  that  the  entire  medical  profession  of 
Indiana  will  unite  with  me  in  paying  this  little 
tribute  of  respect  to  these  honored  men. 

At  this  preliminary  meeting  a  number  of  prac- 
tical questions  were  discussed  and  acted  upon. 
One  was  the  expediency  of  establishing  a  medical 
journal,  and  Drs.  George  W.  Mears,  Vierling 
Kersey  and  Eobert  Curran  were  appointed  a 
committee  to  report  some  definite  action.  It  was 
several  years  before  a  journal  was  created,  but 
their  action  was  helpful. 

Again,  Dr.  E.  J.  Patterson  offered  the  follow- 
ing resolution,  which  was  adopted: 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  to 
memorialize  the  Legislature  of  the  state,  upon  the  sub- 
ject of  Homicidal  Insanity — asking  the  enactment  of  a 
law  requiring  that  in  all  cases  where  the  plea  of  in- 
sanity is  set  up  as  an  excuse  for  crime,  the  question  of 
insanity  shall  be  first  and  separately  tried  and  decided 
by  a  commission  of  lunacy. 

Also,  on  motion  of  Dr.  John  H.  Sanders,  it 
was 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         149 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  to 
memorialize  the  Legislature,  asking  them  to  provide 
by  law  for  a  registration  of  marriages,  births  and 
deaths. 

The  good  seed  sown  by  those  early  pioneer 
physicians  has  borne  fruit,  and  they  deserve 
praise  for  their  forethought. 

The  state  society  had  not  long  been  in  existence 
until  death  entered.  At  the  session  of  1850  Dr. 
John  H.  Sanders,  who  had  acted  as  temporary 
chairman  at  the  first  convention,  had  passed 
away  (April  4,  1850),  also  Dr.  T.  AY.  Cowgill, 
and  the  following  resolution  was  passed  (Trans- 
actions 1850,  page  7)  : 

Resolved,  That  as  a  society  we  sincerely  feel  the  loss 
we  have  sustained  in  the  recent  death  of  John  H.  San- 
ders, M.D.,  of  Indianapolis,  and  T.  W.  Cowgill,  M.D., 
of  Greencastle. 

The  society  early  recognized  the  necessity  for 
a  high  standard  of  preparation  for  those  desiring 
to  enter  the  profession,  as  shown  by  resolution, 
1850,  page  9 : 

Resolved,  That  this  society  recommend  to  the  mem- 
bers of  all  local  societies,  and  the  profession  through- 
out the  state,  that  they  do  not  receive  students  into 
their  offices  for  a  less  term  than  three  years,  including 
the  usual  term  of  public  pupilage,  and  that  they  re- 
quire a  fee  for  office  instruction,  and  the  use  of  books, 
of_  not  less  than  $100,  and  that  preceptors  should  in- 
stitute frequent  examination  of  their  pupils. 

It  was  further  resolved  that  a  broad  line  of 
distinction  between  scientific  medicine  and  the 
various  forms  of  empiricism  in  vogue  in  our 
country  should  be  plainly  marked  and  seen.  Phy- 
sicians were  urged  to  exert  their  influence  with 
newspaper  publishers  and  druggists  to  prevail 
upon  them  to  withhold  their  aid  to  such  impos- 


150         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    11^ DIANA. 

ture.  And  they  had  their  troubles  in  the  good 
old  days ! 

The  im2:)ortance  of  keeping  accurate  notes  of 
all  important  cases  and  epidemic  diseases  which 
might  come  under  their  observation  was  urged 
upon  physicians.  This  was  fifty-nine  years  ago. 
and  is  still  applicable  to  all  young  physicians  of 
the  present  day.  By  all  means,  young  men,  keep 
a  case-book.  The  writer  was  impressed  with  this 
advice  when,  more  than  forty  years  ago,  he  heard 
the  older  Austin  Flint  make  the  assertion  that 
his  success  in  medicine  had  largely  been  due  to 
the  fact  that  throughout  his  life  he  had  kept  a 
case-book. 

The  society  also  stood  firmly  for  the  code  of 
ethics  and  all  the  principles  that  it  inculcated. 

Another  resolution  introduced  at  this  meeting 

(1850)  is  applicable  at  the  present  day  (page  8)  : 

Resolved,  That  it  is  expedient  for  the  members  of  our 
profession  to  avail  themselves  of  all  suitable  occasions 
to  deliver  popular  lectures  on  the  grand  principles  of 
physiology,  on  which  the  theory  of  practice  in  medicine 
is  instituted,  with  the  view  of  instructing  the  public 
mind  and  popularizing  the  regular  system  of  medicine. 

Also  at  this  meeting  they  grappled  with  prob- 
lems that,  for  the  sake  of  science,  we  all  regret 
they  left  undetermined : 

Resolved,  That  a  committee  be  appointed  by  the 
president  to  collect,  in  a  systematized  form,  facts  on 
the  duration  of  pregnancy  and  the  causes  which  influ- 
ence sex. 

The  eleventh  annual  session  of  the  state  so- 
ciety was  held  at  Indianapolis,  May  17  and  18, 
1860.  On  page  62  of  that  year's  Transactions 
may  be  found  a  list  of  the  members  of  the  Indi- 
ana State  Medical  Society,  with  a  statement  that 
"This  list  includes  the  names  of  all  who  have 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIAXA.         151 

been  members  of  the  society  since  its  organiza- 
tions.'' This  is  not  quite  correct^,  for  I  have  dis- 
covered more  than  a  dozen  names  which  have 
been  doubtless  accidentally  omitted  and  have 
added  them  to  the  list.  I  have  also  corrected 
some  typographical  errors^  and  in  a  number  of 
instances  supplied  the  Christian  name  where  I 
found  only  an  initial  letter.  As  the  society  was 
eleven  years  old  at  the  time  of  the  publication  of 
this  list,  and  there  are  about  329  names  of  phy- 
sicians who  were  then  active  in  professional  life 
and  who  now,  after  half  a  century  has  elapsed, 
deserve  this  slight  recognition,  I  have  decided  to 
reproduce  their  names. 

Comparing  the  location  year  by  year  of  these 
physicians,  I  was  impressed  with  the  large  num- 
ber who  had  changed  their  residences  in  the 
short  period  of  eleven  years,  showing  a  desire  for 
better  surroundings.  Nearly  all  "have  fallen 
asleep."  Alas,  how  few  would  answer  to  their 
names  at  a  roll-call  today !  I  think  the  living 
could  be  numbered  upon  the  fingers  of  two,  if  not 
one,  hand. 

"And  the  names  we  loved  to  hear 
Have  been  carved  for  many  a  year 
on  the  tomb." 

Albertson,   Edmund Canton 

Allen,    Joseph    , Crawfordsville 

Angell,  Charles   Pittsburg 

Ardery,  Joseph  C.   (Decatur  Co.) Milford 

Armington,  John  L Greensburg 

Athon,   James   F Charleston 

Austin,  Thomas  K New  Albany 

Ayres,  Henry  P Fort  Wayne 

Ballard,    Chester    G Waveland 

Barritt,   J.   J Greenville 


152         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Bartholomew,  B Danville 

Beck,  E.  W.  H Delphi 

Beck,    G.    G Delphi 

Beck,  John  C Cadiz 

Belles,   J.   T Indianapolis 

Bennett,  J.  W Plymouth 

Blunt,   M.   S Mt.  Vernon 

Bobbs,  John  S Indianapolis 

Bowman,   Charles    New  Albany 

Boyd,  John  M Thorntown 

Boynton,  A.   G Elizabethtown 

Boynton,   C.    L Elizabethtown 

Bray,  Ebenezer    Evansville 

Bray,   Madison    J Evansville 

Brown,    Clay    Indianapolis 

Brown,    B.    T Crawfordsville 

Brown,  Samuel  M New  Bethel 

Brower,   J.   H Lawrenceburg 

Buck,  0 Dayton 

Buck,   E.   H Clarksburg 

Bush,  O Dayton 

Bullard,   Talbott    .  .  . Indianapolis 

Bullard,  W.  R Indianapolis 

Burns,   Jesse    Evansville 

Butler,    A.    B . Richmond 

Butterfield,    S.    H Brooklyn 

Byers,   William   J Frankfort 

Byf ord,  W.  H Evansville 

Carlstadt,  F.  A Evansville 

Casselberry,  Isaac   Evansville 

Carter,   F.   M Frankfort 

Catlin,   H.    W Georgetown 

Chapman,  A Alquina 

Chestnut,   Thomas    Lafayette 

Chitwood,   G.  R Connersville 

Clark,    0.    L Lafayette 

Clapp,  Asahel    New  Albany 

Clapp,  W.  A New  Albany 

Coe,   Henry Danville 

Coe,   Z.    B Kirklin 

Cogley,   T.   J Madison 


MEDICAL    HLSTORY    OF    INDIANA.         153 

Collier,    A.    G Columbus 

Coleman,  Horace    Logansport 

Collings,  J.  S Cicero 

Collins,   Wm.    F Cumberland 

Collum,    William    F Jeffersonville 

Comingor,   J.    A Danville 

Conn,   Richard   B Ripley  County 

Conyngton,  John    Mt.   Vernon 

Cooper,  William    New  Albany 

Cornett,  W.  T.  S Versailles 

Cowgill,    T.    W Greencastle 

Crippen,    E.    H Rushville 

Crouse,  D.  H Dayton 

Curran,    Robert    Jeflfersonville 

Cyms,   W.   H Allisonville 

Darraeh,    G.    M Indianapolis 

Davidson,  B.  K Evansville 

Davidson,  William    Madison 

Day,    S.    D Shelbyville 

Davis,   J.    B Indianapolis 

Davis,    W.    H Illinois 

Davis,    S Columbus 

DeBruler,   James   P Rockport 

Deming,  Elizur  H Lafayette 

Dillon,   A.    C Rushville 

Dicken,  James  L Somerset 

Doneghy,   John   T Indianapolis 

Dorsey,   N.   J Indianapolis 

Dowling.  H.  M New  Albany 

Dryden,  T.  F Xorth  Field 

Dunlap.  Livingston   Indianapolis 

Dunn,    J Lawrenceburg 

Dunnell,   D Yountsville 

Edgerle,  G.  W.,  Jr Muncie 

Elder,   Samuel  F Mt.  Auburn 

Elder,  B.  F Knightstown 

Eldridge    Dearborn    County 

Ellis,   C.   R Hardinsburg 

Ellis,  E.  W.   H Indianapolis 

E'llis,  John    Hardinsburg 

Ellis,    Joseph Bradford 


154         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Elliott,    Cyrenus Milltown 

Elliott,    James   H Brookville 

Elliott,    Thomas    B Indianapolis 

Elliott,  W.  M Evansville 

Everts,  C.  C Union  Mills 

Farquhar,  Uriah   Logansport 

Farrell,   A Mt.   Vernon 

Field,  Nathaniel Jeff ersonville 

Finley,  Isaac    Columbus 

Fishback,    Charles    Shelbyville 

Fisher,    Samuel    Newcastle 

Florer,   Thomas   W Alamo 

Ford,    James     Wabash 

Foster,   W.   C Mt.   Pleasant 

Foster,    C.   A Evansville 

Francis,  James  K Ripley  County 

Freeman,  S.  A Fort  Wayne 

French,  William  H Mt.  Vernon 

Fry,  Thomas  W Crawfordsville 

Funkhouser,   David    Indianapolis 

Gall,  A.  D Indianapolis 

Gaston,  John  M Indianapolis 

Gerard,  Jerome  B Hartford 

Girdner,    J.    G Greenville 

Gordon,  Jonathan  W Indianapolis 

Graff,  George  B Princeton 

Graham,  J.  N Chicago,  111. 

Graydon,  R.  G Greenwood 

Gramm,  William   Evansville 

Green,    J.    N Shelbyville 

Green,  W.   F Shelbyville 

Grimes,  Samuel   Delphi 

Haines,  A.  B Aurora 

Hall,  D.  D Connersville 

Hamil,  Robert  C Bloomington 

Harding,    M.    H Lawrenceburg 

Harrington,  S.  H Richmond 

Harvey,   Thomas   B Plainfield 

Harrison,  James  S Indianapolis 

Harvey,  William  F Plainfield 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         loo 

Hatchitt,  James  G Evansville 

Haughton,    R.    E Richmond 

Heald,  J.  E West  Point 

Heavenridge,    A Stilesville 

Helm,   Jefferson    Rusliville 

Henderson,  H.  D .  . Salem 

Henkle    Wabash 

Hervey,   J.   W Germantown 

Hibberd,  J.  F Richmond 

Hickox,  H.  C Aurora 

Hillis,   D.   B Brownstown 

Hinman,   H.   T Columbus 

Hitt,   Willis   W Vincennes 

Hoel,  John  B North  Hogan 

Holcomb    Madison 

Howard,   N.   P Greenfield 

Huggins,  George  M Darlington 

Hunt,  John   Madison  County 

Humphreys,  Louis    .- .  .  South  Bend 

Hunt,   Andrew  M Indianapolis 

Hurd,    A Oxford 

Hutchinson,  David    Mooresville 

Ireland,  J.  M Erancisco 

Irwin,  John  S .  . .  .  : Madison 

Isler,  J Lafayette 

Jameson,  Patrick  H Indianapolis 

Jennings,    D Lafayette 

Jessup,  D.  H Rising  Sun 

Jessup,  R.  R Rising  Sun 

Jewett,  Luther    Lafayette 

Johnson,  E.  K Eagle  Village 

Johnson,  H.  V.  V Broad  Ripple 

Johnson,  Joseph    Bakers'  Corners 

Johnson,    Nathan Cambridge   City 

Johnson,  P.  Roosevelt    Lafayette 

Jones,   David  M Corydon 

Judkins,   S New   Garden 

Kennedy,  Levi  H Belleville 

Kennedy,  S.  A Fairland 

Kersey,  Vierling    Milton 


156         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIANA. 

Knepfler,   Nathan    Indianapolis 

Kitchen,   J.  M Indianapolis 

Kivett,   John    Evansville 

Latta,  M.   M Goshen 

Leonard,  S.  E New  Albany 

Lewis,  John   Ogden 

Leslie,  Alexander    Petersburg 

Link,  Harvey   New  Albany 

Linton,  S.  M Columbus 

Lloyd,  Frederick   New  Albany 

Lindsley,  John Evansville 

Lomax,  William    Marion 

Low,  Nathan  M Elizabeth 

Lynch,  M.  J Indianapolis 

Maclean,   George   M New   Albany 

Mahan,    Oliver   P Crav\^f ordsville 

Martin,  M.   L Middle  Fork 

Mauzy,  E.  D Pushville 

Maxwell,  James  D Bloomington 

Mayo,  William  W Lafayette 

McClelland,  J.  S Jefferson 

McClenahan,    Thomas    J Anderson 

McDonald,  D.  H Indianapolis 

McFadden,  W.  G London 

McFall,  D.  M Cumberland 

McFarland,  J.  B Lafayette 

McGaughej^,  Jonn  W Morristown 

McMechan,  J.  G Crawf ordsville 

Mears,  George  W Indianapolis 

Meeker,  Daniel    LaPorte 

Mendenhall,    N Plainfield 

Mendenhall,   J Ashland 

Metz,  J.  J Ossian 

Mitchell,  G.  B Martinsville 

Moffett,  John Rushville 

INIoodej'-,  John  W Greensburg 

Moore,  R.  C Belleville 

Morgan,  Daniel Evansville 

Morris,  J.  M Sulphur  Hill 

Mothershead,  John  L Indianapolis 


MEDICAL    Hii-iTOUY    OF    LMHAXA.  1.37 

Mothershead,  F.  M Indianapolis 

Mulhausen,    H Evansville 

Mulhausen,   M Evansville 

Mullen,  Alexander  J Napoleon 

Mullen,  B.  F Napoleon 

Mullen,  J.   W Madison 

Murphy,  Edward  New  Harmony 

Negley,  D.  N Evansville 

Nesbitt,  Joseph  A Allisonville 

New,  George  W Greensburgh 

Newcomer,    Frisby    S Indianapolis 

Newland,  Benjamin Bedford 

Newland,  Elijah  R New  Albany 

Nutt,  John   Indianapolis 

O'Ferrall,  R.  M '. Lafayette 

O'Neal,    L Somerset 

Olcott,  W.  A Manchester 

Parker,  G.  B Indianapolis 

Parry,  Charles    Indianapolis 

Parvin,  Theophilus    Indianapolis 

Patterson,  B.  J Indianapolis 

Pegg,  J.  A New  Garden 

Pennington,  Joel Milton 

Personett,  L.  D Greens  Forks 

Pleasants,  John  H Indianapolis 

Pressley,  William  H Augusta 

Preston,   Albert  G. Greencastle 

Rea,  John  New  Castle 

Reader,  William    Corydon 

Ramsey,  C.  S Indianapolis 

Reagan,  Jesse   Spring  Valley 

Reagan,  A.  W Mooresville 

Record,   Samuel    Lanesville 

Reed,   Thomas   M Indianapolis 

Reid,  Samuel   Salem 

Ritter,  Levi   Plainfield 

Robbins,  Clark Monrovia 


158         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Eobinson,  William  E Louisville 

Eoe,  John  S North  Madison 

Rogers,  Joseph  H.   D. Madison 

Rosenthal,  J . Fort  Wayne 

Ronalds,  Hugh  Evansville 

Rooker,  James  I Castleton 

Rowan,  B.  C Fort  Wayne 

Rowland,  Wiilard Oswego 

Rucker,  T.  H New  Albany 

Runcie,  E.  T Millersburg 

Ryan,  Townsend   Anderson 

Rynerson,  J.  N Mt.  Meridian 

Sanders,  John  H Indianapolis 

Schonover,    William    S Hardinsburg 

Scribner,  Wm.  A New  Albany 

Sexton,   Marshall    Rushville 

Sheppard,    M .  : .  Columbus 

Sherrod,    R.    W Millport 

Shields,  P.  S New  Albany 

•    Sinex,   William   G .  New  Albany 

Skinner,    John    A Vineennes 

Sloan,   John    New   Albany 

Smelsor,    J.    W Manwaring 

Smith,    Hubbard   M Vineennes 

Smith,    Isaac    Lafayette 

Smith,   W.  R Cumberland 

Somes,    Joseph     Vineennes 

Spencer,    R Monticello 

Spencer,   W Monticello 

Spottswood,   E.  T Perrysville 

Stacy,    George   W Warsaw 

Stevens;  Thaddeus   M Indianapolis 

Stout,   Oliver  H Indianapolis 

Sutton,   George   Aurora 

Talbot,  H.   E Greencastle 

Tate,  William   Lawrenceburg 

Taylor,  T.  W Battle  Ground 

Thomas,  M.  W .  .Franklin 

Thompson,  W.  Clinton Indianapolis 

Thompson,  W.  E New  London 

Tichnor,  James    Crawf ordsville 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         159 

Todd,    Henry    G Indianapolis 

Todd,  L.  L.,  Jr Southport 

Todd,   R.   N Southport 

Town,  R.  R New  Albany 

Tyler,   W.   W Roanoke 

Vail,   Joel   Richmond 

Vanderbark,    Peter    Knightstown 

Vickery,    A.    M Tipton 

Wallace,  A.  G Indianapolis 

Wallace,   Charles Belleville 

Walker,    G.    B Evansville 

Walker,   John  T Evansville 

Walker,   Oscar  C Blairsville 

Weist,  J.  R New  Westville,  0. 

Welborn,   J.    C Bloomington 

Weldon,  Samuel  J Covington 

Wellman,    Richard   M Jasper 

Wetherill,    C.    M Lafayette 

West,   Calvin    Hagerstown 

Wilcox,    J.    R Evansville 

Willard,    R Warsaw 

Wilson,    James    B Salem 

Wilson,    John    R Evansville 

Wilson  James  W Rossville 

Wilstach,    C.    F Lafayette 

Winton,    Horace North   Manchester 

Winton,  Robert    Muncie 

Winton,   William   R Wabash 

Wishard,  William  H Greenwood 

Wolf,    J.   G Morristown 

Woodburn,    J.    H Indianapolis 

Woodworth,  B.  S Fort  Wayne 

Wort,  Samuel    Brownstown 

Wright,   John   F Columbus 

Wright,    J.    Joel Monrovia 

Wright,    H.    Mansur Indianapolis 

Wyley,    D Jeffersonville 

Yeakle,    D.   T Lafayette 


CHAPTEE  XVII. 


Epidemics.  —  Legal  Enactmei^^ts.  —  Eecext 
Legislation^. — Law  of  1897, — Law  of 
1909. — The  State  Board  of  Health. — 
Sessiois's  of  the  State  Medical  Society 

AXD  ASSOCIATIOX. ChAXGES  IN"  THE  StATE 

Society. — List    of    Presidents    of    the 
Indiana  State  Medical  Society, 

During  the  early  forties  an  epidemic  of  ery- 
sipelas prevailed  in  a  number  of  counties  in  In- 
diana, notably  in  Dearborn,  Eipley  and  Decatur 
counties,  and  was  known  by  the  popular  name  of 
'^^black  tongue." 

In  the  Western  Lancet^  November,  1843,  Dr. 
George  Sutton  of  Aurora  contributed  an  article 
entitled,  "Eemarks  on  an  Epidemic  Erysipelas, 
Known  by  the  Popular  iSTame  of  ^Black  Tongue,' 
AYhich  Prevailed  in  Eipley  and  Dearborn  Coun- 
ties, Indiana."  This  article,  like  everything  else 
that  Dr.  Sutton  wrote,  is  valuable.  The  entire 
article  was  of  so  much  merit  that  it  was  repro- 
duced in  the  English  work  of  "Nunneley  on  Ery- 
sipelas." I  have  the  American  edition  of  this 
work  before  me  (Barrington  and  Haswell,  1844), 
and  the  article  begins  at  page  85.  An  extract 
from  Dr.  Sutton's  paper  will  illustrate  the  char- 
acter of  the  disease : 

"The  following  is  a  synopsis  of  the  symptoms 
of  this  epidemic.    Wlien  the  throat  was  the  part 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         101 

attacked,  after  the  usual  premonitory  symptoms 
which  have  been  frequently  mentioned  had  con- 
tinued for  two  Or  three  days,  the  patient  was 
generally  seized  with  a  chill,  which  lasted  in 
many  cases  four  or  five  hours.  This  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  high  fever,  swelling  of  the  tonsils, 
submaxillary,  parotid,  and  lymphatic  glands  of 
the  neck;  neuralgic  pains,  darting  over  the  side 
of  the  neck  and  head,  frequently  following  the 
temporal  artery;  tongue,  covered  at  first  with  a 
thick  brown  coat,  soon  became  swollen  and  often 
very  dark  in  the  center;  deglutition  frequently 
very  difficult;  pulse  generally  full,  though  easily 
compressed;  skin  at  first  hot  and  dry,  becoming 
moist  and  continuing  so  after  venesection.  In 
the  mild  form  of  the  disease  these  symptoms  were 
frequently  removed  at  once  by  an  active  antiphlo- 
gistic course  of  treatment.  Sometimes  the  mild 
form  had  only  the  appearance  of  cynanche  ton- 
sillaris, but  in  the  more  malignant  form,  where 
the  throat  was  affected,  after  the  above  symp- 
toms had  continued  for  two  or  three  days,  and 
sometimes  from  the  very  commencement,  the 
pharynx  became  of  a  dark  purple  color.  This 
color  generally  spread  over  the  palate,  tongue, 
and  sides  of  the  cheeks,  the  tongue  becoming 
very  much  swollen,  assuming  a  blackish-brown 
color;  deglutition  in  many  cases  was  almost  im- 
possible. In  most  of  these  cases  an  erA'Sipelas 
would  commence  at  the  angle  of  the  mouth  or 
nose  and  spread  over  the  face  and  head,  with  all 
the  symptoms  peculiar  to  that  disease.  The  in- 
flammation of  the  throat  was  seldom  stationary; 
sometimes  passing  down  the  trachea,  with  symp- 


162         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

toms  resembling  laryngitis^  or  cynanche  trachea- 
lis,  and  at  last  assuming  the  symptoms  of  pneu- 
monia. Sometimes  this  inflammation  passed  into 
the  nostrils,  and  from  them  into  the  frontal 
sinuses;  sometimes  apparently  into  the  antrum 
maxillary,  but  in  nearly  every  case  that  I  saw 
the  throat  became  well  while  the  erysipelas  was 
spreading  over  the  skin.'^ 

In  the  State  Transactions  for  1852,  page  33, 
may  be  found  a  "Eeport  of  the  Committee  on  the 
Practice  of  Medicine,"  in  which  Drs.  M.  H. 
Harding  of  Lawrencebnrg,  Ezra  Eead  of  Terre 
Haute,  and  John  W.  Moodey  of  Greensburg  dis- 
cuss epidemics  of  scarlatina  prevailing  in  1837-8 
and  1846-7.  Also  epidemics  of  dysentery,  which 
prevailed  at  intervals  from  1849  to  1852,  and 
which  was  especially  fatal  in  1851  and  1852.  Dr. 
Moodey,  who  was  my  preceptor,  told  me  that  his 
experience  in  these  epidemics  of  dysentery  was 
so  distressing  that  he  would  often  come  home 
in  the  evening  discouraged,  after  having  visited 
from  home  to  home,  throw  his  saddle-bags  upon 
the  floor,  and  declare  in  his  despair  that  he 
would  see  no  more  patients,  but  on  the  morrow 
the  demand  of  the  sick  and  call  to  duty  was  so 
pressing  that  he  again  rallied  and  went  on  his 
sorrowful  rounds.  I  was  a  boy  of  eleven  years 
in  1851,  but  remember  distinctly  of  an  older 
sister,  living  in  Eush  County,  who  lost  three 
children  in  one  week  from  dysentery. 

At  the  session  of  the  state  society  in  1852  a 
committee  was  appointed  to  ascertain  in  what 
counties  and  townships  the  "milk  sickness"  pre- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         163 

vails,  and  whether  this  disease  disappears  upon 
the  removal  of  the  forests  and  cultivation  of  the 
land;  whether  it  prevails  to  the  same  extent  upon 
the  highlands  that  it  does  upon  the  alluvial  bot- 
toms, and  any  other  facts  relating  to  this  disease. 
The  query  arose  as  to  whether  intermittent,  re- 
mittent, congestive,  and  continued  fevers  were 
on  the  increase  or  decrease.* 

Cholera  prevailed  to  quite  an  extent,  especially 
along  the  navigable  water  courses  of  Indiana, 
in  1849  to  1852. 

The  reader  is  referred  to  an  exhaustive  paper 
by  Dr.  George  Sutton,  "A  Eeport  to  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society  on  Asiatic  Cholera  as  it 
Prevailed  in  this  State  in  1849-50-51-52."  State 
Transactions,  1853,  page  109. 

Those  days  of  epidemics  antedated  by  many 
3^ears  the  discovery  of  the  germ  theory  of  dis- 
ease, but  the  physicians  of  that  period  w^ere  men 
of  sound  judgment  and  practical  sense  and  man- 
aged their  cases  discreetly 

The  Transactions  for  1852,  page  7,  record  a 
series  of  resolutions  upon  the  death  of  Dr.  Henry 
M.  Dowling  of  New  Albany.  Nothing  is  said 
concerning  the  date  of  his  birth,  nor  exact  date 
of  his  death.  He  was  present  at  the  formation 
of  the  state  society,  and  as  such  deserves  this 
trifling  recognition. 

The  Transactions  for  1864,  page  9,  records 
the  following  resolution: 

That  this   Society  regard  with  profound  regret  and 
sorrow    the    decease    of    our    lamented   confreres,    Drs. 

*  See  report  of  Dr.  J.  S.  McClelland,  Jefferson.  Clinton 
County,  State  Transactions  1854,  p.  43.  No  positive  con- 
clusions wore  reached,  but  the  information  is  valuablp.— 
G.  W.  H.  K. 


164         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

[Calvin]  West,  [Talbott]  Bullard,  Elliott,  and  Wil- 
son; that  we  will  cherish  their  memories  in  grateful 
remembrance,  and  emulate  their  virtues. 

The  Christian  name  of  each  one  is  omitted, 
and  I  am  only  able  to  determine  definitely  those 
of  West  and  Billiard. 

They  were  affected  by  fads  in  the  early  days 
of  onr  state  society,  much  as  we  are  at  the  pres- 
ent time.  In  1856  Dr.  David  Hutchinson  was 
appointed  to  report  on  blood-letting  in  epilepsy, 
and  in  the  Transactions  for  1857,  page  8,  he 
says: 

"Having  examined  the  literature  of  the  sub- 
ject, I  find  that  none  of  our  recent  authorities 
have  any  confidence  in  blood-letting  as  a  remedy 
in  epilepsy,  but,  on  the  contrary,  an  opposite 
mode  of  treatment  is  advised,  the  disease  being 
one  of  debility  instead  of  plethora."  Upon  this 
statement  the  committee  was  discharged. 

One  resolution  desired  a  committee  to  report 
a  universal  fee-bill  for  the  entire  state !  I  find 
no  record  of  a  report. 

The  slaughter  of  the  innocents  was  prevalent 
in  the  sixties  and  was  condemned  by  resolutions 
denouncing  criminal  abortion  at  the  meeting  in 
1860. 

The  advantages  of  vaccination  were  emphat- 
ically urged  by  resolutions  in  1860. 

White  lead  as  a  remedy  for  superficial  burns 
came  into  favor  in  the  early  sixties,  being  espe- 
cially recommended  by  the  late  Prof.  S.  D. 
Gross.  It  was  discussed  and  a  committee  was 
appointed  to  investigate  its  claims.    Whether  the 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.  165 

remedy  lost  out  or  the  committee  grew  careless 
I  can  not  say;  but  they  made  no  report. 

A  committee  was  appointed  to  investigate  "the 
evil  effects  of  tobacco."  The  committee,  long 
since  dead,  made  no  report. 

A  word  of  praise  is  due  the  late  Dr.  Calvin 
West  of  Hagerstown,  who,  in  the  early  sixties, 
became  an  enthusiast  ever  the  microscope  and 
made  a  number  of  valuable  annual  reports  upon 
his  investigations  in  the  Transactions. 

LEGAL  ENACTMENTS. 

At  every  session  of  the  society  charlatanism 
w^s  deplored,  and  the  Legislature  was  urged  to 
enact  such  laws  as  might  be  requisite  for  the 
protection  of  the  state  from  incompetent  and 
reckless  practitioners  of  medicine  and  surgery, 
as  well  as  those  who  dispensed  drugs.  Such  re- 
quests were  not  unreasonable. 

Quackery  has  always  annoyed  the  profession  of 
our  state.  As  an  unbidden  guest,  it  has  stalked 
in  our  presence,  and,  like  the  poor,  will,  pos- 
s\hlj,  never  cease  out  of  the  land.  In  the  early 
history  of  our  state  there  were  stringent  laws 
upon  our  statute  books  regulating  the  practice 
of  medicine.  Possibly  they  were  too  drastic  for 
those  primitive  days.  Physicians  of  high  grade 
could  not  always  be  secured,  nor  properly  com- 
pensated for  their  services,  and  so  men  of  the 
"Doc  Sifers"  stamp  and  unskilled  midwives  were 
suffered,  through  sympathy,  to  attend  our  early 
inhabitants.  Nevertheless,  politicians  have,  as  a 
rule,  been  the  friends  of  quackery  and  the  scorn- 
ers  of  legitimate  medicine. 


166         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

At  the  session  of  the  state  society  held  at  New 
Alban}^,  May  19,  1853,  a  memorial  from  the 
Evansville  Medical  Society  was  presented,  and, 
as  it  is  a  fair  exponent  of  the  early  medical  leg- 
islation, I  shall  copy  the  relevant  portion : 

Transactions  1852,  page  6 :  "The  Evansville 
Medical  Society  having  had  their  attention  called 
to  the  existence  of  a  large  body  of  irregular 
physicians,  whose  ignorance  and  incapacity  exert 
a  manifest  injury,  both  upon  the  community 
among  whom  they  practice  and  the  profession 
whose  calling  they  degrade,  and,  being  anxious, 
so  far  as  lay  in  their  power,  to  redress  this  griev- 
ance, appointed  a  committee  to  report  upon  the 
laws  of  the  state  of  Indiana,  formerly  bearing 
upon  this  subject. 

"The  committee  reported  that  several  laws 
upon  this  subject  were  passed  in  the  years  1816. 
1825,  and  1830,  entitled  acts  for  the  better  regu- 
lation of  the  practice  of  medicine  in  the  state 
of  Indiana. 

"The  first  of  these  acts,  passed  in  the  session 
of  1816,  had  for  its  object  the  organization  of 
the  profession  into  boards  of  supervision  cor- 
responding with  the  judicial  districts  of  the 
state.  Provision  was  made  for  their  perpetua- 
tion. Authority  was  conferred  upon  them  to  ex- 
amine and  license  to  practice  any  applicant  whom 
they  might  consider  properly  qualified.  It  af- 
fixed a  rate  or  scale  of  charges  for  medical  serv- 
ices. And,  lastl}^,  declared  that  any  person  prac- 
ticing medicine  in  the  state,  unless  properly  au- 
thorized so  to  do,  either  by  the  license  of  the 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         1G7 

examining  board  or  otherwise,  should  not  have 
the  assistance  of  the  law  in  collecting  a  remunera- 
tion for  his  services. 

"The  act  of  1825  had  for  its  object  the  better 
organization  of  the  medical  profession.  It 
granted  charters  to  a  central  state  society  and 
to  local  societies,  corresponding  to  the  judicial 
districts;*  enforced  the  regulations  already  made, 
and  provided  for  the  continuation  of  the  soci- 
eties by  fixed  rules  of  representation. 

"The  act  of  1S30  provided  for  the  remedying 
of  certain  defects  in  the  old  law  and  for  en- 
forcing its  regulations  by  denying  the  aid  of  the 
law  to  collect  the  bills  of  irregular  practitioners. 

"Since  1830  these  laws  have  all  been  repealed 
and  none  others  enacted  in  their  places.'^ 

The  repeal  of  these  medical  laws  left  our  state 
at  the  mercy  of  any  one  who  chose  to  assume 
the  name  of  "doctor^^  for  the  next  fifty-five  years. 

RECENT  LEGISLATION",  f 

The  first  legal  attempt  in  recent  years  in  any 
manner  to  regulate  the  practice  of  medicine,  sur- 
gery and  obstetrics  in  the  state  of  Indiana  was 
made  during  the  session  of  the  State  Legislature 
of  1885. 


*  In  the  early  days  of  Indiana,  physicians  were  licensed 
to  practice  medicine  by  certificates  granted  by  judicial  or 
medical  districts.  Dr.  John  W.  Cook  of  Pendleton,  has 
kindly  permitted  me  to  copy  one  of  these  papers  issued  to 
his  father,  the  late  Dr.  Ward  Cook  of  Pendleton,  in  1832, 
It  is  printed  on  a  good  quality  of  parchment ;  the  seal, 
stamped  on  paper,  showing  an  open  lancet,  is  obscure.  Dr. 
Dickinson  Burt,  who  signs  this  certificate  as  secretary, 
was  the  first  physician  to  locate  in  Delaware  County. 
These  certificates  are  mentioned  elsewhere. 

t  The  author  desires  to  acknowledge  valuable  assistance 
rendered  by  Dr.  George  R.  Green  of  Muncie,  in  this  resume 
of  recent  State  laws. 


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MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIAXA.         109 

This  act  specified  three  classes  of  practitioners 
who  should  be  permitted  to  practice  under  the 
protection  of  the  law.  It  provided  a  system  of 
registration  in  the  counties  wherein  the  appli- 
cant proposed  to  practice,  and  the  conditions 
under  which  certificates  were  issued  by  the  clerk 
of  the  court  were  as  follows : 

1.  Graduates  of  reputable  medical  colleges  pre- 
senting a  diploma  as  proof  of  such  graduation, 
supported  by  the  testimony  of  two  witnesses  as 
to  the  moral  character  of  the  applicant. 

2.  Attendance  upon  one  term  of  medical  lec- 
tures and  three  years  of  practice  immediately 
preceding  the  passage  of  this  act,  in  the  county 
where  application  was  made,  together  with  proof 
of  good  moral  character,  entitled  the  applicant 
to  continue  practice. 

3.  Any  physician  who  had  been  engaged  in 
practice  in  the  state  for  ten  years  immediately 
preceding  the  passage  of  this  act,  upon  proof  of 
this  fact,  and  also  good  moral  character,  was 
likewise  permitted  to  continue  in  practice.  This 
law  practically  disturbed  no  resident  practitionei' 
at  the  time  of  its  passage  in  the  state. 

Another  provision  stipulated  that  after  a  speci- 
fied date  only  those  who  were  graduates  of  rep- 
utable medical  colleges  should  be  permitted  to 
begin  practicing  within  the  borders  of  the  state. 

This  law  was  not  perfect,  but  it  marked  the 
beginning  of  a  return  to  the  old  laws  of  real 
worth  which  had  been  enacted  and  repealed  early 
in  the  history  of  the  state  It  was  imperfect  in 
that  it  left  the  moral  standing  of  the  applicant, 
and  the  reputability  of  the  college,  to  the  judg- 


170         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

me  lit  of  the  clerk  of  the  court,  from  which  there 
was  no  appeal.  There  was  no  regular  standard 
by  which  to  measure  the  requirements,  and  the 
decisions  were  characterized  by  a  remarkable  de- 
gree of  elasticity. 

LAW  OF  1897. 

The  act  of  1897,  while  replacing  the  act  of 
1885,  provides  that  all  physicians  who  had  reg- 
istered under  the  act  of  1885  and  have  been  in 
continuous  practice  in  the  state  since  that  date 
shall  be  permitted  to  register  under  the  new  law. 

This  law  also  created  the  Board  of  Medical 
Eegistration  and  Examination,  to  which  all  ap- 
plications for  registration  must  be  made,  and 
whose  duty  it  is  to  issue  permits  in  the  way  of 
certificates  setting  forth  that  applicants  have 
complied  with  the  provisions  of  the  law.  On  the 
presentation  of  these  certificates  to  the  clerk 
of  the  court  in  the  county  in  which  the  appli- 
cant lives  and  proposes  to  practice,  and  the  pay- 
ment of  a  proper  fee,  a  license  is  issued  by  the 
clerk.  In  case  of  removal  from  one  county  to 
another  the  license  in  the  first  county  is  to  be 
deposited  in  the  new  county  as  evidence  and  a 
new  license  issued  in  lieu  of  it  at  the  last  resi- 
dence. 

Under  this  law  (1897)  the  applicant  must 
be  a  graduate  of  a  reputable  medical  college,  and 
the  standard  of  the  colleges  is  detemiined  by  the 
Board  of  Medical  Eegistration  and  Examination. 
This  board  also  has  power  to  determine  the  pre- 
liminary educational  requirements  of  applicants. 
After  February,  1903,  the  board  requires  an  en- 
trance  qualification,   the  minimum   requirement 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         171 

being  a  high  school  diploma  or  equivalent  docu- 
mentary evidence  of  education.  If  the  applicant 
can  not  furnish  such  diploma  as  documentary 
evidence  then  the  board  gives  an  examination. 

Prior  to  January,  1903,  the  entrance  require- 
ments were  the  same  as  those  prescribed  by  the 
Association  of  American  Medical  Colleges. 

In  1905  the  law  was  amended  so  as  to  add  an 
osteopath  to  the  Board  of  Medical  Eegistration 
and  Examination. 

Under  certain  regulations,  reciprocal  agree- 
ments exist  between  certain  states. 

This  law  is  handicapped  in  view  of  the  fact 
that  the  state  leaves  the  entire  financial  care  of 
the  board,  together  with  its  expenses,  including 
expenses  incurred  in  punishing  violations,  to  the 
board  itself,  and  there  is  no  provision  for  its 
financial  maintenance  except  that  which  the 
board  is  able  to  secure  in  fees  from  those  who 
come  before  it  for  examination.  Xo  other  body 
of  men  in  the  state  is  required  to  finance  the 
enforcement  of  a  state  law,  except  physicians, 
and  they  are  the  onlv  bodv  of  men  willing  to 
do  it ! 

LAW   OF    1909. 

The  Legislature  of  1909  enacted  a  law  regu- 
lating maternity  hospitals,  boarding  houses  for 
infants,  and  boarding  homes  for  children,  and 
the  placing  of  infants.  It  provides  for  licenses 
by  the  board  of  state  charities,  fixes  liability  for 
the  care  of  infants,  prohibits  the  sending  of 
pregnant  women  to  other  counties  where  their 
children  become  public  dependents,  etc.  This  bill 
is  beneficent,   as  it  will   prevent  the  heretofore 


172         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

nefarious  baby-farms  which  have  in  many  in- 
stances flourished  as  adjuncts  to  the  many  illicit 
so-called  maternity  hospitals. 

THE  STATE  BOARD  OF  HEALTH. 

In  1891  the  general  law  creating  the  State 
Board  of  Health  was  enacted. 

In  1901  the  regulation  of  the  discharge  of 
factory  refuse  into  the  streams  in  the  state  wac 
made  a  part  of  the  duty  of  the  board. 

In  1903  further  legislation  was  enacted  re- 
quiring physicians  or  householders  to  report  all 
cases  of  suspected  contagious  diseases  to  the 
Board  of  Health.  It  also  provided  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  quarantine^  and  detailed  penalties  f or 
violations. 

In  1905  a  bill  was  enacted  providing  for  the 
establishment  of  a  Laboratory  of  Hygiene  and 
defining  its  duties. 

In  1907  further  legislation  was  enacted  on  the 
subjects  of  marriages,  births,  deaths,  diseases  aud 
burial  permits,  and  pre;;cribed  penalties  for  vio- 
lations. Also  in  this  year  the  pure  food  and 
drug  bill  was  placed  upon  the  statute  books, 
making  the  chemist  of  the  State  Board  of  Health 
a  food  and  drug  commissioner,  and  defining  his 
duties,  and  placing  the  legal  enforcement  of  this 
law  under  the  supervision  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health.  Here,  again,  lack  of  funds  have  hin- 
dered the  efficiency  of  the  law. 

In  March,  1909,  the  Legislature  passed  an 
amendment  to  the  former  laws  regulating  the 
Board  of  Health.  The  duties  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health  are  defined  and  increased.  The  name 
of  the  county  health  officer  is  changed  to  Countv 


MEDICAL    HlHTOltY    Of    IXDIAXA.  173 

Health  Commissioner.  He  is  to  be  elected  on 
the  first  Tuesday  in  January,  1910,  and  every 
four  years  thereafter.  "In  every  incorporated 
city  there  shall  be  a  department  of  health  com- 
posed of  a  board  of  three  commissioners,  not 
more  than  two  of  whom  shall  be  of  the  same  po- 
litical party,  and  at  least  two  of  whom  shall  be 
physicians  well  informed  in  hygiene  and  sanitary 
science,  and  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor 
of  such  incorporated  city  for  the  term  of  four 
years,  and  who  shall  be  known  as  the  City  Board 
of  Health." 

SESSIOXS    or    THE    TXDIAXA    STATE    MEDICAL 
SOCIETY   AND   ASSOCIATIOX. 

After  the  formation  of  the  society  it  was  mi- 
gratory for  a  time,  then  was  stationary  at  Indian- 
apolis for  a  number  of  years^  and  again  became 
migratory. 

The  places  of  meeting  were :  1849  to  1851, 
1855  to  1864,  1866  to  1895,  1899,  1904,  1907  and 
1911,  at  Indianapolis;  1852,  ?^ew  Albany;  1853 
and  1898,  Lafayette;  1854  and  1902,  Evansville; 
1865  and  1903,  Eichmond;  1900,  Anderson: 
1901,  South  Bend;  1896  and  1910,  Fort  Wayne: 
1897  and  1909,  Terre  Haute;  1905,  West  Baden; 
1906,  AYinona  Lake,  and  1908,  French  Lick. 
Total :  Forty-six  times  at  Indianapolis  and  six- 
teen times  at  other  cities. 

The  meetings  were  held  either  in  May  or  June, 
except  in  1862,  when  the  Civil  War  interrupted, 
but  a  call  session  occurred  the  same  3^ear,  Novem- 
ber 18  and  19.  At  the  session  held  at  French 
Lick  in  1908  it  was  voted  that  hereafter  meet- 
ings shall  be  held  in  the  autumn. 


174         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IlSWIA^^A. 
CHANGES  IN  THE  STATE  SOCIETY. 

At  the  session  of  the  society  held  at  Evans- 
ville  (1902),  were  elected  for  the  first  time,  mem- 
bers of  the  House  of  Delegates  of  the  American  • 
Medical  Association,  as  follows:  For  the  long 
term,  Drs.  G.  W.  H.  Kemper  and  Edwin  Walker ; 
for  the  short  term,  Drs.  W.  N.  Wishard  and  D. 
C.  Peyton. 

At  the  next  session  of  the  society,  held  at 
Richmond  (1903),  the  Indiana  members  of  the 
House  of  Delegates  submitted  a  written  report 
(see  Transactions,  1903,  p.  392)  to  the  society, 
recommending  that  the  present  state  society  adopt 
the  new  constitution  as  planned  by  the  American 
Medical  Association  for  the  government  of  state 
associations.  The  national  association  at  New 
•Orleans  (1903)  had  made  the  change,  and  sub- 
stituted for  the  time  honored  "Code  of  Ethics" 
the  new  form  of  government,  to  be  based  on  the 
"Principles  of  Medical  Ethics  of  the  American 
Medical  Association."  On  motion  the  new  con- 
stitution and  by-laws  were  adopted.  It  was  not 
to  go  into  effect  until  the  hour  of  adjournment 
of  the  annual  meeting,  except  that  the  president 
was  to  appoint  the  councilors  provided  for. 

Prior  to  this  time  the  business  of  the  society 
was  conducted  in  general  session.  Thencefortli 
the  general  sessions  were  to  be  confined  to  the 
reading  and  discussion  of  papers,  while  all  busi- 
ness was  to  be  transacted  by  the  House  of  Dele- 
gates. 

With  the  session  of  1904  the  society  was  under 
the  new  fonn  of  government  and  the  name  of 
"society"  was  changed  to  "association." 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         175 

The  proceedings  of  each  session  were  published 
in  an  annual  volume  until  and  including  1907— 
making  fifty-eight  in  all— when  the  plan  was  dis- 
continued. At  the  1907  meeting  Dr.  G.  F. 
Keiper  made  a  motion,  which  was  adopted,  "That 
the  council  shall  take  such  steps  as  they  may 
deem  wise  toward  the  creation  of  a  monthly  med- 
ical journal  as  the  organ  of  this  state  society,  to 
take  the  place  of  the  present  Transactions ;  that 
this  be  the  recommendation  of  the  House  of  Del- 
egates to  the  council,  to  report  next  year." 

In  accordance  with  this  resolution  the  first 
number  of  The  Journal  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Association,  as  a  monthly  journal,  was 
issued  in  January,  1908,  at  Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 
Dr.  Albert  E.  Bulson,  Jr.,  was  made  editor  and 
manager. 


CHAPTEE    XVIII 


Pkesidexts  of  The  Ia^dia^a  State  Medical 
Society  an^d  Association. 

Names  and  Eesidence.  Elected.     Served. 

MEDICAL     CONVENTION. 

"Livingston   Dnnlap,  Indianapolis 1849  1849 

MEDICAL    SOCIETY. 

"William  T.  S.  Cornett,  Versailles 1849  1850 

*Asahel  Clapp,  New  Albany 1850  1851 

"^George  W.   Mears,   Indianapolis 1851  1852 

'"'Jeremiah  H.  Brower,  Lawrenceburg .  .  .1852  1853 

*Elizur  H.   Deming,   Lafayette 1853  1854 

'"Madison  J.  Bray,  Evansville 1854  1855 

'"William  Lomax.  Marion 1855  1856 

*Daniel  Meeker,  Laporte 1856  1857 

*Talbott  Bullard,  Indianapolis 1857  1858 

^'Nathan  Johnson,   Cambridge   City 1858  1859 

*David  Hutchinson.  Mooresville 1859  1860 

"Benjamin  S.  Woodworth,  Fort  Wayne .  .  1860  1861 

*Theophilus  Parvin,  Indianapolis 1861  1862 

*  James  J^\  Hibberd,  Eichmond 1862  1863 

*John    Sloan,    New    Albany 1863  1864 

*John  Moffett  (acting) .  Rushville 1864  1864 

"Samuel    M.    Linton,    Columbus 1864  1864 

-^Myron  H.  Harding,  Lawrenceburg.  ...  1865  1865 

*  Wilson  Lockhart    (acting),  Danville.  .  1865  1866 

*Vierling  Kersey.   Richmond 1866  1867 

*John  S.  Bobbs,  Indianapolis 1867  1868 

*Nathaniel   Field,   Jeffersonville .  .  . 1868  1869 

*George  Sutton,  Aurora 1869  1870 

^Robert  N.  Todd,  Indianapolis 1870  1871 

"Henrv  P.  Avres,  Fort  Wavne 1871  1872 


MEDICAL    HIHTOHY    OF    JXDIAXA.  177 

^■Joel  Pennington.  Milton 1872  1873 

"'■Isaac    Casselberi y,    Evansville 1873  1874 

"Wilson    Hobbs,    Knightstown 1873  1874 

*Ricliard   E.    Haughton,   Richmond 1874  1875 

'Mohn  H.   Helm,   JPeru 1875  187(5 

"Samuel  S.  Boyd,  Dublin 1870  1877 

Luther  D.   Waterman,  Indianapolis.  ...  1877  1878 

'••'Louis  Humphreys,  South  Bend 1878  .  . .  J 

^Benjamin    Newland     (acting),    Bedford 

(V.-P.) 1878  1870 

*Jacob  R.  Weist,  Richmond 1879  1880 

*Thomas   B.   Harvey,   Indianapolis 1880  1881 

'•Marshall  Sexton.  Rushville 1881  1882 

"William  H.  Bell.  Logansport 1882  1883 

'•Samuel  E.  Munford,  Princeton 1883  1884 

*James  H.  Woodburn.  Indianapolis.  .  .  .1884  1885 

■'■James  S.  Gregg,  Fort  Wayne 1885  1886 

General  W.  H.  Kemper.  Muncie 1880  1887 

*Samuel  H.  Charlton,  Seymour  1887  1888 

William  H.  Wishard,  Indianapolis 1888  1889 

'■■James   D.   Gatch.   Lawrenceburg 1889  1890 

'■Gonsolvo  C.   Smythe,  Greencastle 1890  1891 

Edwin  Walker,  Evansville 1891  1892 

George  F.  Beasley,  Lafayette   1892  1893 

Charles  A.  Daugherty,  South  Bend....  1893  1894 

''"Elijah  S.  Elder,  Indianapolis 1894  1894 

Charles  S.  Bond   (acting) ,  Richmond.  ..  1894  1895 

Miles  F.  Porter,  Fort  Wayne 1895  1896 

James  H.  Ford,  Wabash 1896  1897 

William  N.  Wishard,  Indianapolis 1897  1898 

John  C.  Sexton,  Rushville 1898  1899 

Walker  Schell,  Terre  Haute 1899  1900 

George  W.  McCaskey,  Fort  Wayne 1900  1901 

Alembert  W.  Brayton,  Indianapolis.  .  .  .1901  1902 

John  B.  Berteling,  South  Bend 1902  1903 

MEDICAL    ASSOCIATION". 

Jonas  Stewart,  Anderson 1903  1904 

George  T.  MacCoy,  Columbus 1904  1905 

*George  H.  Grant,'  Richmond 1905  1906 

George  J.  Cook,  Indianapolis 1906  1907 


178         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

David  C.  Peyton,  Jeflfersonville 1907  1908 

George  D.  Kahlo,  French  Lick 1908  1909 

Thomas  C.  Kennedy,  Shelbyville 1909  1910 

Frederic  C.  Heath,  Indianapolis 1910  1911 


PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  AMERICAJT  MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATIOlsr. 
( From  Indiana ) . 

"Theophilus  Parvin    : 1879 

••James   F.  Hibberd    1894 

'^Dead.     $E,e  signed. 


VICE-PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  INDIANA  STATE  MEDICAL 
ASSOCIATION 

PREPARED    BY    G.    W.    H.    KEMPER,    M.D.,    MUNCIE 

MEDICAL   CONVENTION 

Elected  Served 

^Nathan  Johnson,  Cambridge  City 1849  1849 

"Townsend    Ryan,    Anderson 1849  1849 

*Thomas   W.    Florer,   Alamo 1849  1849 

*Charles  Wallace,   Belleville 1849  1849 

MEDICAL  SOCIETY 

-=*Asahel  Clapp,  New  Albany .1849  1850 

"Nathan  Johnson,  Cambridge  City 1849  1850 

*Livingston  Dunlap,   Indianapolis 1849  1850 

"Uriah  Farqnhar,  Logansport 1849  1850 

-"William   Lomax,    Marion 1850  1851 

^Robert  Curran,  Indianapolis 1850  1851 

'-William   Davidson,   Madison 1850  1851 

"Willis  W.  Hitt,  Vincennes 1850  1851 

*Henry  M.  Dowling,  New  Albany 1851  1852 

*Samuel    Grimes,    Delphi 1851  1852 

"Joel  Pennington,   Milton 1851  1852 

*Charles   Parry,   Indianapolis 1851  1852 

*William  H.   Byford,   Evansville 1852  1853 

"William   Davidson,    Madison 1852  1853 

-"Vierling    Kersey,    Milton 1852  1853 

-=^Talbott  Bullard,  Indianapolis 1852  1853 


MEDICAL    HLSTORY    OF    INDIANA.  179 

*Nathan  Johnson,   Cambridge  City 1853  1854 

■'■James  S.  McClelland,  Jefferson 1853  1854 

"Myron  H.  Harding,  Lawrenceburg 1853  1854 

*Samuel   Reid,   Salem I853  1854 

"Othniel   L.    Clark,   Lafayette 1854  1855 

■••Pleasant  S.  Shields,  New  Albany 1854  1855 

■"■Joel   Pennington,    Milton 1854  1855 

''John   L.   Mothershead,   Indianapolis 1854  185o 

^'George  Sutton,  Aurora   1855  1856 

■'•George  B.  Walker,  Evansville 1855  1856 

Charles   Bowman,   New    Albany 1855  1856 

"■Daniel  Meeker,  Laporte 1855  1856 

*John  Sloan,  New  Albany 1856  1857 

"•Willis  W.  Hitt,  Vineennes 1856  1857 

■■■"Thomas   W.   Florer,   x\lamo 1856  1857 

■'"John    Moffett,    Rushville 1856  1857 

'•Thomas  J.  Cogley,  Madison 1857  1858 

"""David    Hutchinson,    Mooresville 1857  1858 

*Calvin   West,   Hagerstown 1857  1858 

""William  R.  Winton,  Wabash 1857  1858 

"•'Thomas  K.  Austin,  New  Albany 1858  1859 

■"Benjamin  Newland,  Bedford 1858  1859 

■"Thomas   W.    Fry,    Crawfordsville 1858  1859 

"""Milton  M.  Latta,  Goshen 1858  1859 

■^John  Sloan,  New  Albany 1859  I860 

■"•Robert  M.  O'Ferrall,  Lafayette 1859  I860 

""James  S.  McClelland,  Jefferson 1859  1860 

""■Richard   E.   Haughton,   Richmond 1859  1860 

■••'Jonathan  N.  Green,  Stilesville I860  1861 

"""Charles  Fishback,  Shelbyville i860  1861 

""Louis  Humphrey,   South  Bend i860  1861 

■"Isaac  Casselberry,   Evansville I860  1861 

"*Calvin  West,  Hagerstown 1861  1862 

'■Henry  Cox,  Danville.  . I86I  1862 

"""Alfred  H.  Robbins,  Rochester 1861  1862 

"'•John  A.  Skinner,  Vineennes 1861  1862 

*William  R.  Winton,   Wabash 1862  1863 

''Horatio  G.  Sexton,  Rushville 1862  1863 

"Albert  G.  Preston,  Greencastle 1862  1863 

'•"John  Moffett,  Rushville 1862  1863 

'■"Albert  G.  Preston,  Greencastle 1863  1864 


180         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

*John    Moffett,    Kushville 1863  1864 

"Benjamin  Newland,  Bedford 1863  1864 

"""Calvin   West,   Hagerstown 1863  1864 

*Wilson   Lockhart,    Danville 1864  1865 

*Thomas  B.  Harvey,  Indianapolis 1865  1866 

*James  H.  Woodburn,  Indianapolis 1866  186V 

*Robert   B.   Jessup,   Vincennes 1867  1868 

"'^Robert   N.    Todd,   Indianapolis 1868  1869 

''Henry  P.  Ayres,  Fort  Wayne 1869  1870 

*Isaac  M.   Rosenthal,   Fort  Wayne 1870  1871 

*James   K.   Bigelow,  Indianapolis... 1871  1872 

*Richard  E.  Haughton,  Richmond 1872  1873 

■"Wilson  Hobbs,   KnightstoAvn 1873  1874 

■■William  B.  Lyons,  Huntington 1874  1875 

■""Ferdinand    W.   Beard,-  Vincennes 1875  1876 

Edmund  D.  Laughlin,  Orleans 1876  1877 

*Noble  P.  Howard,  Greenfield 1877  1878 

*Benjamin    Xewland,    Bedford 1878  1879 

^- James  D.   Gatch.  Lawrenceburg 1879  1880 

*John  D.   Mitchell,  Terre  Haute 1880  1881 

Flavins  J.  Van  Vorhis,  Indianapolis 1881  1882 

*Samuel  H.   Charlton,  Seymour 1882  1883 

William  H.   Schultz,  Lebanon 1883  1884 

*  James  S.  Gregg,  Fort  Wayne 1884  1885 

William  J.  Hurt,  Waynetown 1885  1886 

William    V.    Wiles,    Spencer 1886  1887 

Calvin  W.  Burket,  Warsaw 1887  1888 

"Albert   G.   Porter,   Lebanon 1888  1889 

Silas    T.    Yount,    Lafayette 1889  1890 

Hugh  D.  Wood,  Angola 1890  1891 

Ervin   Wright,   Huntington 1891  1892 

Carter   H.   Smith,   Lebanon 1892  1893 

Thomas  F.  Leech,  Crawfordsville 1893  1894 

Charles   S.   Bond,   Richmond 1894  1895 

Edgar   L.   Larkins,   Terre   Haute 1895  1896 

William  F.  Batman,  Lebanon 1896  1897 

Jonas  Stewart,  Anderson 1897  1898 

George  F.  Keiper,  Lafayette 1898  1899 

Samuel   Kennedy,   Shelby ville 1899  1900 

Anexamander   M.    Hayden,   Evansville.  .  .  .  1900  1901 

John  B.  Berteling,  South  Bend 1901  1902 

William  H.   Gilbert,   Evansville 1902  1903 


medical  history  of  fxd/axa.  181 
:medical  associatiox 

Charles    A.    White,    Danville • 1003  1904 

Isaac  X.   Trent,  Muncie 1!J03  1904 

Maurice   G.   Moore,   Vincennes 1903  1904 

Homer  J.  Hall,  Franklin 1904  1905 

Claude   T.    Hendershot,   Cannelton 1904  1905 

David  J.  Loring,  Valparaiso 1904  1905 

David  W.   Stevenson,  Richmond 1905  1906 

Harry    C.    Sharp,    Jeffersonville 1905  190G 

William  R.  Davidson,  Evansville 1905  1906 

Jonathan   B.    Garber,   Dunkirk 1906  1907 

Charles  C.  Terry,  South  Bend 1906  1907 

Charles    Chittick,    Frankfort 1906  1907 

William  H.   Stemm,  X'orth  Vernon 1907  1908 

August  F.  Knoefel,  Linton 1907  1908 

George   R.    Green,   Muncie 1907  1908 

Edward  D.  Freeman,  Osgood 1908  1909 

Charles  H.   McCully,  Logansport 1908  1909 

Charles    Chittick,    Frankfort 1908  1909 

Edmund  M.  Van  Buskirk,  Fort  Wayne.  .  .  .  1909  1910 

Eugene    Hawkins,    Greencastle 1909  1910 

Theodore    Potter,    Indianapolis 1909  19lu 

John   X.   Hurty,   Indianapolis 1910  1911 

Andrew  S.  Dickey,  Tipton. •.  .  .  .  1910  1911 

James    P.    Salb,    Jasper 1910  1911 


A   CORRECTED   LIST   OF  PHYSICIAXS   PRESEXT 

AT  THE  MEDICAL  COXVEXTIOX  HELD  AT 

IXDIAXAPOLIS,    JUXE    6,    1849 

Inasmuch  as  a  number  of  errors  occur  in  the  list  of 
names  on  page  145,  I  have  deemed  it  proper  to  repro- 
duce them  in  a  corrected  form,  with  the  christian  name 
supplied  in  some  in.stances  where  omissions  occurred. 
I  have  chosen  to  give  them  in  alphabetical  order  at 
this  time.  The  men  who  founded  our  present  State 
Medical  Association,  deserve  at  least  to  have  their 
names  correctly  recorded.  Dr.  William  H.  Wishard, 
whose  name  is  the  last  in  the  list,  will  be  the  last  of 

♦Deceased. 


182         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

the  eighty-four  to  pass  away.     On  Jan.   17,   1911,  he 

celebrated  his  ninetj^-fifth  birthday. 

ALLEN,    JOSEPH Crawfordsville 

ARDEEY,  JOSEPH  C Decatur  Co. 

APvMINOTON,   JOHN   L Greensburg 

ATHON,  JAMES  S Charlestown 

BALLAPvD,    CHESTER    G Waveland 

BOBBS,   JOHN    S .Indianapolis 

BOYD,   JOHN   M Thorntown 

BROWER,  JEREMIAH  H Lawrenceburg 

BULLARD,    iTALBOTT Indianapolis 

BYERS,    WILLIAM    J Frankfort 

CLAPP,  ASAHEL   New  Albany 

CLAPP,  WILLI  AIM  A New  Albany 

COLLIBI,  WILLIAM  F Jeffersonville 

CONN,  RICHARD  B Ripley  Co. 

COOPER,  WILLIAM    New  Albany 

CORNETT,  WILLIAM  T.  S Ripley  Co. 

COWGILL,   TARVIN  W Greencastle 

CURRAN,  ROBERT    Indianapolis 

DAVIDSON,   WILLIAM    Madison 

DOWLING,  HENRY  M New  Albany 

DUNLAP,   LIVINGSTON Indianapolis 

ELD  RIDGE,    ALBERT Dearborn   County 

FARQUHAR,    URIAH Logansport 

FENLEY,    ISAAC.  .  . Columbus 

FLORER,    THOMAS    W Alamo 

FOSTER,  WILLIAM  C,  SR Bloomington 

FRANCIS,  JAMES  K Ripley  County 

FRY,   THOMAS   W Crawfordsville 

FUNKHOUSER,  DAVID Indianapolis 

GALL,    ALOIS    D Indianapolis 

GASTON,   JOHN  M Indianapolis 

GORDON,  JONATHAN  W Dearborn  County 

HAMIL,   ROBERT   C Bloomington 

HARDING,  MYRON  H Lawrenceburg 

HARRISON,  JAMES  S Indianapolis 

HELM,  JEFFERSON Rushville 

HENKLE, '■ Wabash 

HINIMAN,  HOMER  T Columbus 

HITT,  WASHINGTON  WILLIS Vincennes 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         183 

HOLCOMB,    JOHN   B Madison 

HUGGINS,  GEORGE  M Darlington 

HUNT,  ANDREW  M Indianapolis 

HUNT,  FRANKLIN  W Laporte 

HUNT,  JOHN   Madison  County 

HUTCHINSON,   DAVID    Mooresville 

JAMESON,   PATRICK  H Indianapolis 

JOHNSON,  H.  V.  V Broad  Ripple 

JOHNSON,  NATHAN Cambridge  City 

JUDKINS,  STANTON.  .  .New  Garden,  Wayne  Co. 

KERSEY,   VIERLING    Milton 

LEONARD,  SOMERVELL  E New  Albany 

LEWIS,    JOHN Ripley    County 

MAHAN,   OLIVER  P Crawf ordsville 

MAXWELL,  JAMES  D Bloomington 

MEARS,   GEORGE   W Indianapolis 

MOODEY,  JOHN  W Greensburg 

MOTHERSHEAD,  JOHN  L Indianapolis 

MULLEN,  ALEXANDER  J Napoleon 

MULLEN,  BERNARD  FRANCIS Napoleon 

MULLEN,    JOHN    WILLIAM Madison 

NEW,  GEORGE  W Greensburg 

NUTT,  JOHN Marion  County 

PARRY,  CHARLES Indianapolis 

PATTERSON,  R.  J Indianapolis 

PEGG,  JESSE  A New  Garden 

PRESTON,  ALBERT  G Greencastle 

RAMSEY,  C.  S Indianapolis 

RODGERS,  JOSEPH  H.   D Madison 

RYAN,  TOWNSEND Anderson 

SANDERS,  JOHN  H Indianapolis 

SCRIBNER,  WILLIAM  A New  Albany 

SHIELDS,  PLEASANT  S New  Albany 

SINEX,  WILLIAM  G New  Albany 

SLOAN,  JOHN  New  Albany 

SMITH,  WILLIAM  R Cumberland 

TALBOTT,  HIRAM  E Greencastle 

TAYLOR,  W.  H Dearborn  County 

THOMPSON,  W.  CLINTON Indianapolis 

TICHNOR,  JAMES Crawf  ordsville 

WALLACE,  CHARLES    Belleville 


184         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

WELDON,  SAMUEL  J Covington 

^A  KITE,  WILLIAM Prairieville,  Clinton  Co 

WILEY,  JOHX  HEZEKIAH Richmond 

WISHAPvD,.  WILLIAM  H Johnson  County 

Total  84.  ^ 


AVlLLfA.M    II.   W'iSilAPvl) 
The    la-,t    siiivivor    of    the    Medical    C'onA'ention    of    iS-t!) 


CHAPTER  XIX 


WAR  HISTORY. 
Indiana  Physicians  in  the  Mexican    War. 

There  were  five  Indiana  regiments  in  tlie  Mex- 
ican War,  numbered  from  One  to  Five.  Sixty- 
three  years  have  elapsed  since  the  close  of  that 
war  and  the  surgeons  have  all  passed  away. 

Strange  to  say,  the  Mexican  War  left  no  valu- 
able medical  history  or  records.  I  find  in  the  In- 
diana Journal  of  Medicine,  volume  5,  page  145 
(August,  1874),  a  contribution  from  Dr.  Alfred 
Patton,  late  of  Vincennes,  Ind.,  entitled  "Recol- 
lections of  Medical  Service  During  the  War  with 
Mexico."  In  this  paper  Dr.  Patton  narrates 
some  interesting  observations  during  his  service 
in  that  country.  The  doctor  went  out  as  a  pri- 
vate soldier  in  the  First  Mississippi  Rifles  (Jeff 
Davis'  Regiment),  but  soon  after  arriving  there 
was  detailed  in  the  medical  department,  where 
he  rendered  service  during  the  continuance  of 
the  war.  I  may  also  state  that  Dr.  Patton  dur- 
ing the  late  Civil  War  served  as  brigade  surgeon 
of  Maxey's  Brigade  (Confederate). 

It  is  possible  that  some  other  Indiana  physi- 
cians may  have  served  in  the  ranks  or  as  officers 
during  the  war,  but  I  have  no  means  at  hand  for 
ascertaining  their  names. 


186         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    nWIANA. 
FIRST  INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  REGIMENT. 

Surgeon^  Dr.  Caleb  V.  Jones*  (promoted  from 
private)  ;  assistant  surgeon.  Dr.  William  Fos- 
dick. 

SECOND  INDIANA  VOLUNTEER  REGIMENT. 

Surgeon,  Dr.  Daniel  S.  Lane;  assistant  sur- 
geon. Dr.  John  T.  Walker. 

THIRD    INDIANA    VOLUNTEER    REGIMENT. 

Surgeon,  Dr.  James  S.  Athon;  assistant  sur- 
geon. Dr.  John  G.  Dunn. 

FOURTH    INDIANA    VOLUNTEER    REGIMENT. 

A  note  from  the  Adjutant  General's  office  at 
Washington,  D.  C,  says:  "Isaac  Fenley,  con- 
tract surgeon.  United  States  Army,  is  shown  to 
have  been  on  duty  with  the  Fourth  Indiana  In- 
fantry Volunteers  in  the  years  1847  and  1848. 
IvTothing  has  been  found  of  record  to  show  that 
any  other  person  was  on  duty  with  that  organi- 
zation in  a  medical  capacity.''  (Letter  Dec.  14, 
1908,  G.W.  H.  K.)t 

*  See  Transactions  1884,  p.  213.  Was  surgeon  of  the 
63d  Ind.  Vols,  in  Civil  War. 

t  •'While  at  Matamoras  an  amusing  incident  occnrved. 
Charges  were  preferred  against  one  of  the  medical  officers 
of  Col.  Willis  A.  Gorman's  [Fourth]  Indiana  regiment,  and 
I  was  ordered  by  the  medical  director  to  investigate  the 
charges.  I  found  Colonel  Gorman  and  one  of  his  captains 
in  waiting  for  me  at  the  colonel's  headquarters.  In  a  few 
words  the  captain  explained  the  nature  of  the  charge,  when 
he  asked,  'What  would  yoti  think  of  the  skill  of  a  physi- 
cian who  prescribed  gunpowder,  tar  and  beefsteak,  as  a 
diet  for  a  patient  very  low  with  typhoid  fever?'  This  was 
more  serious  than  I  expected,  and  I  demanded  to  see  the 
prescription,  which  I  found  was  written  in  the  doctor's 
best  style,  and  which  I  readily  deciphered  to  mean,  'Diet — 
Gunpowder  tea,  and  beef  tea,  every  four  hours  alternately.' 
T  explained  the  prescription  to  the  colonel  and  the  officers 
making  the  charge,  and  left  them  better  satisfied  with  their 
medical  officer.  The  moral  of  this  is  that  doctors  should 
learn  to  write  a  legible  hand,  as  from  the  neglect  to  do  so 
they  often  suffer  in  reputation,  and  that  which  is  far  worse, 
it  sometimes  leads  to  serious  mistakes  by  druggists  and 
nurses." — Dr.  Alfeed  Pattox. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         187 
FIFTH    INDIANA    VOLUNTEER    REGIMENT. 

Surgeon,  Dr.  James  S.  Athon;  assistant  sur- 
geon, Dr.  P.  G.  Jones. 

Alphabetical  List  of  Surgeons  and  Assist- 
ant Surgeons  Who   Served  in  Indiana 
Eegiments  During  the  Civil  War.* 

Fortv-six  years  have  elapsed  since  Lee's  sur- 
render at  Appomattox. 

Indiana  sent  out  into  the  Civil  War  136  regi- 
ments of  infantry,  13  regiments  of  cavalry,  1 
regiment  of  artillery,  25  companies  of  artillery. 
Including  2,130  naval  volunteers,  Indiana  sent 
210,497  men  to  that  war,  and  to  care  for  these 
she  supplied  about  500  surgeons.  There  were 
24,416  of  the  sons  of  Indiana  who  laid  down 
their  lives  for  their  country  in  that  war. 

The  regiments  in  the  Mexican  War  had  one 
surgeon  and  one  assistant  surgeon,  while  those  in 
the  Civil  War  had  one  surgeon  and  two  assistant 
surgeons. 

In  many  instances  Governor  Morton  sent  civil 
surgeons  to  help  care  for  the  wounded  after  great 
engagements.  A  large  majority  of  these  surgeons 
have  passed  away  and  the  minority  is  rapidly  de- 
creasing'. 


*  In  the  preparation  of  this  list  I  have  expended  both 
time  and  care,  having  diligently  compared  those  of  "Adju- 
tant General's  Report  of  Indiana,"  "Roster  of  Regimental 
Surgeons  and  Assistant  Surgeons  During  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion,"  and  the  "Oflacial  Army  Register  of  the  Volun- 
teer Force  of  the  United  States  Army."  I  wish  also,  to 
acknowledge  valuable  assistance  from  Maj.  W.  W. 
Daugherty,  Recorder  Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of 
the  United  States,  Indianapolis. — G.  W.  H.  K. 


188         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Several  surgeons  saw  service  in  two,  and  a 
fewer  number  in  three  regiments,  and  some  phy- 
sicians served  as  hospital  stewards. 

It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  a  number  of 
Indiana  physicians  also  served  as  combatants 
during  the  Civil  War.  Many  were  enlisted  as 
privates  and  also  line  officers  of  regiments.  Quite 
a  number  of  men  who  served  in  the  Civil  War, 
and  possibly  also  in  the  Mexican  War,  took  up 
the  study  of  medicine  after  their  return  home 
and  became  valuable  members  of  the  medical 
profession. 

ABBOTT,   CHARLES   H.— Asst.   Surg.,   36th   Infantry. 

ABOBN,    ORIN— Asst.    Surg.,    40th    Infantry. 

ADAMS,  DAVID— Asst.  Surg.,  51st  Infantry. 

ADAMS,  JAMES  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  58th  Infantry;  Sur- 
geon,   15th    Infantry. 

ADAMS,  MARCELLUS  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  116th  In- 
fantry. 

AICHELE,  EMII^Asst.   Surg.,  32nd  Infantry. 

ALLEN,  JOSEPH  S.— Surgeon,  10th  Infantry. 

ALLEN,    WILLIAM    S.— Asst.    Surg.,    143rd    Infantry. 

ALEXANDER,  JOHN  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  27th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,  27th  Infantry. 

ANDERSON,  JOSEPH  V.— Asst.  Surg.,  15th  Infantry. 

ANDERSON,  WILLIAM— Surgeon,  37th  Infantry. 

APPLEGATE,  CHARLES  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  73rd  In- 
fantry. 

ARCHER,    SAMUEL   M.— Asst.    Surg.,    133d   Infantry. 

ARMSTRONG,    JAMES    B.— Surgeon,    31st    Infantry. 

ARNOLD,  MARTIN  B.— Asst.   Surg.,   155th  Infantry. 

ARTHUR,  CHRISTOPHER  S.— Surgeon,  75th  Inf. 

AVERDICK,  HENRY  G.— Surgeon,  35th  Infantry. 

AVERY,   INCREASE   J.— Surgeon.   10th  Infantry. 

AVERY,  JOHN  P.— Asst.    Surg.,   11th  Infantry. 

AUSTIN,    THOMAS   D.— Surgeon,    23rd   Infantry. 

BABBITT,   EDWARD  D.— Asst.   Surg.,  34th  Infantrv. 

BAKER,  BRAXTON— Asst.   Surg.,   130th   Infantry. 

BALLARD,    MICAJAH— Asst.    Surg.,    140th    Infantry. 

BANKS,  EPHRAIM  N.— Surgeon,  54th  Infantry. 

BARE,  ADDISON  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  82nd  Infantry. 


MEDICAL  HISTORY  OF  INDIANA.  189 

BARE,  JOHN  R.— Surgeon,  66th  Infantry. 

BARKER,  WILLIAM  L.— Surgeon,   120th  Infantry. 

BASSETT,   JOHN   Q.    A.— Asst.    Surg.,    74th   Infantry. 

BAYSE,   THOMAS   S.— Surgeon,   36th   Infantry. 

BEACHLEY,  NATHANIEL  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  22d  In- 
fantry. 

BECK,  ELIAS   W.  H.— Surgeon,  3rd  Cavalry. 

BECK,    WILLIAM    H.— Surgeon,    145th    Infantry. 

BECKWITH,    LOD    W.— Surgeon,    38th    Infantry. 

BEEBE,  JAMES— Asst.   Surg.,   148th  Infantry.. 

BEEKS,  GREEN  C— Surgeon,   150th  Infantry. 

BELL,   NATHANIEL   G.— Asst.    Surg.,   35th    Infantry. 

BENCE,  ROBERT  F.— Surgeon,  33rd  Infantry. 

BENNETT,    BASIL    B.— Asst.    Surg.,    101st    Infantry. 

BENSON,  JULIUS   L.— Asst.   Surg.,   7th   Cavalry. 

BERRYMAN,  JAMES  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  135th  In- 
fantry. 

BIGELOW,    JAMES    K.— Surgeon,    8th    Infantry. 

BIGNEY,  PETETl  M.— Asst.   Surg.,   18th  Infanty. 

BLACKWELL,   JOHN   A.— Surgeon,    115th   Infantry. 

BLACKSTONE,  JOHN  K.— Asst.   Surg.,  9th  Infantry. 

BLAIR,   WILLIAM   W.— Surgeon,    58th    Infantry. 

BLASER,  FELIX  F.— Asst.   Surg.,  32nd  Infantry. 

BLOUNT,   RUFUS   F.— Asst.   Surg.,   118th   Infantry. 

BODMAN,   EEAM— Asst.    Surg.,   30th   Infantry. 

BOGART,  HENRY  J.— Asst.   Surg.,   139th   Infantry. 

BOGLE,  CHRISTOPHER  F.— Asst.  Surg.,  43rd  Inf. 

BOND,  RICHARD   C— Surgeon,   15th  Infantry. 

BOOR,   WILLIAM    F.— Surgeon,   4th   Cavalry. 

BOSWORTH,   RICHARD— Asst.   Surg.,   36th   Infantry. 

BOUNELL,    MATHEW    H.— Surgeon,    116th    Infantry. 

BOYD,    SAMUEL    S.— Surgeon,    84th    Infantry.- 

BOYNTON,  CHARLES  S.— Surgeon,  24th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,  67th  Infantry. 

BOYSE,  THOMAS  F.— Asst.   Surg.,  36th  Infantry. 

BRACKETT,   CHARLES— Asst.    Surg.,    1st    Cavalry. 

BRAY,  MADISON  J.— Surgeon,  60th  Infantry. 

BRAZELTON,  JOHN  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  134th  Infantry. 

BRENTON,  WILLIAM  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  73rd  Infantry. 

BROOKS,   MORDECAI— Asst.   Surg.,   82nd  Infantry. 

BROWN,  CLAY— Asst.  Surg.,  11th  Infantry. 

BROWN,  JACOB  R.— Asst.   Surg.,  29th  Infantry. 

BROWN,   JESSE  R.— Asst.   Surg.,   57th  Infantry. 

BROWN,  S.  CLAY— Asst.  Surg.,  8th  Infantry;  Sur- 
geon,   18th    Infantry. 

BROWN,   WILKINS    B.— Surgeon,    59th   Infantry. 


190         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

BROWNE,  JOHN  T.— Asst.  Surg.,  12th  Cavalry. 

BEUCE,  GEORGE  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  1st  Cavalry;  Asst. 
Surg.,   8th   Infantry;    Surgeon,   142nd.  Infantry. 

BRUCKER,  MAGNUS— Surgeon,  23rd  Infantry. 

BRUSIE,  LUTHER— Asst.  Surg.,  3rd  Cavalry. 

BRYAN,  GEORGE  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  67th  Infantry. 

BRYSON.  FRANK  T.— Surgeon,  48th  Infantry. 

BUCK,  ROBERT  H.— Surgeon,  13th  Cavalry;  Asst. 
Sura;.,  75th  Infantry;   Surgeon,  118th  Infantry. 

BURTON,  WILLIAM  A— Asst.  Surg.,  24th  Infantry; 
Asst.  Surg.,  57th  Infantry. 

BUSHNELL,  SAMUEL  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  11th  Cavalry. 

BUTTERWORTH,  WILLIAM  W.— Surgeon,  99th  In- 
fantry. 

BUZETT,   EDWARD  F.— Surgeon,  49th  Infantry. 

BYERS,    ALEXANDER    R.— Surgeon,    65th    Infantry. 

BYRN,   SPENCER— Asst.    Surg.,   23rd  Infantry. 

CALDERWOOD,  JAMES  C— Asst.  Surg.,  -^Srd  In- 
fantry. 

CAMPBELL,  JOHN  C.  L.— Asst.  Surg.,  21st  Infantry. 

CAMPFIELD,   JOHN   A.— Asst.    Surg.,    12th   Infantry. 

CARLEY,  RUSH— Asst.  Surg.,  146th  Infantry. 

CARR,  GEORGE  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  44th  Infantry;  Sur- 
geon,   129th    Infantry. 

CASSELBERRY,   ISAAC— Surgeon,    1st   Cavalry. 

CASTERLINE,  AMOS  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  52nd  Infantry. 

CASTERLINE,  ZIBA— Asst.  Surg.,  84th  Infantry. 

CHAMBEIILAIN,  JAMES  M.— Surgeon,  152nd  In- 
fantry. 

CHAMBERLAIN,  N.   A.— Surgeon,   13th  Infantry. 

CHAMP,    GEORGE    W.— Asst.    Surg.,    139th    Infantry. 

CHANDLER,  JOSEPH  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  155th  Infantry. 

CHARLTON,  ROBERT— Surgeon,   79th   Infantry. 

CHARLTON,  SAMUEL  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  6th  Infantry. 

CHITTENDEN,  GEORGE  F.— Surgeon,  16th  Infantry. 

CHITWOOD,  JOSHUA— Surgeon,   7th  Cavalry. 

CLAPP,    WILLIAM   A.— Surgeon,    38th    Infantry. 

CLIPPINGER,  GEORGE  W.— Surgeon,   14th  Infantry. 

CLOWES,  DAVID  A.— Asst.   Surg.,  12th  Cavalry. 

COLE,   WILLIAM    C— Surgeon,   72nd   Infantry. 

COLEMAN,  ASA— Protem  Asst.  Surg.,  46th  Infantry. 

COLEMAN,  HORACEU-Surgeon,  46th  Infantry. 

COLLETT,  JOSEPH  T.— Asst.  Surg.,  6th  Cavalry. 

COLLINGS,  ISAAC  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  57th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,   57th  Infantry. 

COLLINS,  ERASMUS  B.— Surgeon,  51st  Infantry. 

COLLINS,    GEORGE   M.— Asst.    Surg.,    17th   Infantry. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         191 

COLLINS,    WILLL\M   A.— Asst.    Surg.,    6th    Tnfantrv. 

COMINCOR,    .lOTTX    A.— Surgeon,    11th    Infantry. 

CONFEPv,  JAMES  M.— Surgeon,  29th  Infantry. 

CONN,  ISAAC  T.— Asst.  Surg.,  21st  Infantry. 

CONNETT,  MAHLON  C— Asst.  Surg.,  8th  Cavalry. 

COOK,   ROBERT   H.— Asst.   Surg.,   12th   Infantry. 

COOPER,  JOEL  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  115th  Infantry. 

COX,  JESSE   T.— Asst.   Surg.,  89th   Infantry. 

CRAIG,  ISAAC  N.— Surgeon,  13th  Infantry.' 

CRAIG,  JOHN  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  134th  Infantry;  Asst. 
Surg.,  146th  Infantry. 

CRAVE:NS,  JAMES  W.— Asst.   Surg.,   1st  Cavalry. 

CRESAP,  WILLIAM  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  135th  Infantry; 
Asst.  Surg.,   154th  Infantry. 

CROSBY,  THOMAS  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  47th  Infantry. 

CROUSE,  HENRY  M.— Surgeon,  57th  Infantry. 

CROWDER,  ROBERT  H.— Surgeon,  11th  Cavalry. 

CULBEPTSON,  DAVID  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  43rd  Infantry. 

CULBERTSON,  JOSEPH  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  10th  Cav- 
alry. 

CULBERTSON,  ROBERT  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  80th  In- 
fantry. 

CULLEN,  JOHN  C— Surgeon,  16th  Infantry. 

CURRY,  JOHN— Surgeon,  38th  Infantry. 

CYRUS,  ^^^[LLIAM  H.— Asst.  Surgeon,  \54th  Infantry. 

DALY,   GEORGE  P.— Asst.   Surg.,   78th   Infantry. 

DARNELL,  MILTON,  B.— Asst.  Surgeon,  43rd  In- 
fantry;   Surgeon,  43rd  Infantry. 

DAUGHTERS,  ANTDREW  P.— Surgeon.  18th  Infantry. 

DAVIS,  JOHN  B.— Asst.   Surg.,  21st  Infantry. 

DAVIS,  JOHN  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  6th  Infantry;  Asst. 
Surg.,  24th  Infantry. 

DAVIS,  JOSEPH  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  145th  Infantry.        - 

DAVIS,  ROBERT  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  84th  Infantry. 

DAVIS,  SAMUEL— Surgeon,  83rd  Infantry. 

DAVIS,  SOLOMON— Surgeon,  10th  Cavalry;  Surgeon, 
53rd  Infantry. 

DAVIDSON,  BENJA]\nN  F.— Asst.  Surg.,  143rd  In- 
fantry. 

DAVIDSON,    WILLIAM— Asst.    Surg.,    76th    Infantry. 

DAVISSON,   HENRY   C— Asst.    Surg.,   54th   Infantry. 

DEWEY,    ANNIN   W.— Surgeon,    101st    Infantry. 

DICKEN,  JAMES  L.— Surgeon,  47th  Infantry. 

DIXON,  WILLIAM  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  59th  Infantry. 

DOANE,  GEORGE  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  46th  Infantry. 

DODD,  JAMES— Asst.  Surg.,  67th  Infantry. 

DODGE,  HENRY  C— Asst.   Surg.,   74th  Infantry. 


192         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

DODSON,  JONAS  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  4th  Cavalry. 

DOME,  DAVID  C— Asst.   Surgeon,  17th  Infantry. 

DOWNEY,  WILLIAM  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  58th  Infantry. 

DUFFIELD,    JAMES    T.— Asst.    Surg.,    7th    Infantry; 
Surseon,  76th  Infantry. 

DUFFYr  JOHN   S.— Asst.   Surg.,   145th   Infantry. 

DUI^A.TE,  JOHN   S.— Asst.   Surg.,   53rd  Infantry. 

DUNN,  A^T:LLIAMS0N  p.— Asst.  Surg.,  40th  Infantry. 

DUNN,  WILLIAMSON  D.— Asst.  Surg.,  21st  Infantry, 
1st  Heavy  Artillery. 

DURAND,    AMOS    M.— Asst.     Surg.,    50th    Infantry; 
Asst.    Surg.,    52nd   Infantry. 

DUTTON,    DANIEL   B.— Asst.    Surg.,    123rd    Infantry. 

EASTERLING,  AMOS— Asst.  Surg.,  51st  Infantry. 

EBERSOLE,   JACOB— Surgeon,    19th   Infantry. 

EDGERLE.    GEORGE   W.— Asst.    Surg.,   8th   Infantry. 

EDWINS,  STANLEY  W^— Asst.  Surg.,  124th  Infantry. 

ELIOTT.  JAMES  S.— Surgeon,  86th  Infantry. 

ELLIS,   HAMILTON   E.— Surgeon,  43rd  Infantry. 

ELSTON.  WILLIAM  T.— Asst.   Surg.,   151st  Infantry. 

ENO,   NEWTON   G.— Asst.    Surg.,   88th    Infantry. 

EVANS,  DAVID   S.— Surgeon,   69th  Infantry. 

EVERTS,    ORPHEUS— Surgeon,   20th    Infantry. 

FERGUSON,    WILLIAM    T.— Asst.    Surg.,    142nd    In- 
fantry. 

FIELD,    NATHANIEL— Surgeon,   66th    Infantry. 

FISHER,    ELIAS— Surgeon,    16th   Infantry. 

FITZGERALD,  DAVID  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  47th  Infantry. 

FITZGERALD,    JENIQNS    A.— Asst.    Surg.,    70th    In- 
fantry, 

FLACK,  WILLIAM  C— Surgeon,  50th  Infantry. 

FLORER,   THOMAS  W.— Surgeon,  20th  Infantry. 

FORD,   JA]\IES— Surgeon,   8th   Infantry. 

FORD,  JOHN  H.— Surgeon,   93rd  Infantry. 

FORSTMEYER,    EMIL— Asst.    Surg.,    32nd    Infantry. 

FOSDICK,  ALBERT  C— Surgeon,  5th  Cavalry. 

FOSTER.   WILLIAM   C— Asst.    Surg.,    13th   Infantry. 

FOUTS,  WILLIAM  D.— Surgeon,  81st  Infantry. 

FRANCE,    SAMUEL— Surgeon,    100th    Infantry. 

FREEINIAN,  SAMUEL  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  30th  Infantry. 

FREEMAN,  WILLIAM— Surgeon,  7th  Cavalry;    Asst. 
Surg.,  52nd  Infantry. 

FRENCH,  JOHN  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  120th  Infantry. 

FRITTS,  THOMAS  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  3rd  Cavalry;  Asst. 
Surg.,  8th  Cavalry. 

FRY,  THOMAS  W.,  Sr.— Surgeon,   11th  Infantry. 


MEDICAL    IILSTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.  193 

FULLERTON,  GEORGE  VV.— Asst.  Surg.,  130th  In- 
fantry. 

GALL,  ALOLS   D.— Surgeon,   13th  Infantry. 

GARRETT,  ANTHONY— Surgeon,  63rd  Infantry. 

GARRISON,   HEROD   D.— Asst.    Surg..   4th   Cavalry. 

GARRISON,  JAMES  L.  F.— Surgeon,  52nd  Infantry. 

GARVEH,  HENRY  F.— Asst.  Surg.,  19th  Infantry. 

GARVER,  JAMES  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  8th  Cavalry;  Sur- 
geon,  136th  Infantry. 

GATCH,  JAMES  D.— Asst.  Surg.,   16th  Infantry. 

GENTRY,  ZACHARIAH  B.— Surgeon,   154th  Infantry. 

GEHRARD,  JEROME  P..— Asst.  Surg.,  35th  Infantry; 
Asst.   Surg.,   117th   Infantry. 

GERRISH,  JAMES  W.  F.— Surgeon,  67th  Infantry. 

GILLESPIE,  WILLIAM— Asst.  Surg.,  7th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,   83rd  Infantry. 

GILLUM,   JAMES— Asst.    Surg.,    138th   Infantry. 

GILMORE,  ALEXANDER  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  9th  In- 
fantry. 

CLICK,  ELIAS  B.— Surgeon,  40th  Infantry. 

GOLDSBERRY.  JOHN  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  21st  Infantry. 

GOODWIN,  JOHN  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  37th  Infantry. 

GORDON,    GEORGE    W.— Surgeon,    18th   Infantry. 

GORRELL,  JOSEPH  R.— Asst.  Surg.,   129th  Infantry. 

GOSS,  JAMES  M.— Asst.   Surg.,   149th  Infantry. 

GOULD,  VERNON— Asst.  Surg.,  87th  Infantry." 

GRAHAM,  WILLIAM  B.— Surgeon,  101st  Infantry. 

GRAY,  ARTHUR  W.— Surgeon,  24th  Infantry. 

GRAY,  JOHN  M.— Surgeon,  8th  Cavalry. 

GREGG,  JAMES  S.— Surgeon,  88th  Infantry. 

GREGG,  VINCENT  H.— Surgeon,  124th  Infantry. 

GREEN,  HIRAM  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  73rd  Infantry. 

GREEN,  JOHN  N.— Asst.   Surg.,   19th   Infantry. 

GRIFFITH,  JOHN  C— Asst.   Surg.,  29th  Infantry. 

GRINWELL,  JOHN  L.— Asst.   Surg.,  34th  Infantry. 

GROVE,  JASPER  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  7th  Cavalry. 

GROVER,  HENHY  C— Asst.   Surg.,  20th  Infantry. 

GUFFIN,  JOHN— Asst.  Surg.,  20th  Infantry;  Surgeon, 
156th. 

HAINES,  ABRAM  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  19th  Infantry; 
Asst.  Surg.,  20th  Infantry;  Surgeon,  146th  In- 
fantry. 

HALL,  DANIEL  D.— Asst.   Surg.,  36th  Infantry. 

HAM,  LEVI  J.— Surgeon,  48th  Infantry. 

HARRIMAN,  SIMEON  B.— Asst.  Surg^,  34th  Infantry. 

HARRIS,   WILLIAM   B.— Asst.    Surg.,   82nd   Infantry. 

HARRISON,  ROBERT  G.— Asst.  Surg.,  120th  Infantry. 


194         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

HARRISON,  THOMAS  H.—i^sst.  Surg.,  ISOtli  Infantry. 

HAWN,  EMANUEL  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  21st  Infantry, 
1st  Heavy  Artillery;  Surgeon,  49tli  Infantry; 
Surgeon,   144th  Infantry. 

HAYES,  SAMUEL  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  30th  Infantry. 

HAYMOND.  WILLIAM  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  46th  Infantry. 

HEATON,   JOHNSON   F.— Asst.   Surg.,  29th   Infantry. 

HELMER,  ORLANDO  H.— Asst.   Surg.,  43rd  Infantry. 

HENDERSON,   JOHN  F.— Surgeon,  89th   Infantry. 

HENDRICKS,  WILLIAM  C— Surgeon,  31st  Infantry; 
Surgeon,   147th  Infantry. 

HENRY,  DAVID  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  17th  Infantry. 

HENRY,  ROBERT— Asst.  Surg.,  65th  Infantry. 

HERVEY,  JAMES  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  50th  Infantry. 

HERVEY,  THOMAS  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  50th  Infantry. 

HIATT,  CHRISTOPHER  C— Asst.^Surg.,  5th  Cavalry; 
Surgeon,   6th  Cavalry. 

HIGBEE,  EDWARD  S.— Surgeon,  74th  Infantrv. 

HIGINBOTHAM,    SAMUEL— Surgeon,    87th    Infantry. 

HILBURN,   JABEZ   C— Suroeon,    97th   Infantry. 

HITCHCOCK,  JOHN  W.— Surgeon,  18th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,    133rd    Infantrv. 

HITT,  JOHN  Y.— Surgeon,  ■l7th  Infantry. 

HOAGLAND,  JOHN  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  53rd  Infantry. 

HOBBS,  AVILLIAM  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  85th  Infantry. 

HOBBS,  WILSON— Surgeon,  85th  Infantry. 

HOCHSTETTER,  JACOB  P.— Surgeon,  57th  Infantry. 

HODGKINS,  LEWIS   W.— Asst.   Surg.,   68th  Infantry. 

HOFFMAN,  MAX  F.  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  9th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,  128th  Infantry. 

HOLTZMAN,    SAMUEL    E.— Surgeon.    58th    Infantry. 

HORNBROOK,  WILLIAM  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  42nd  In- 
fantry. 

HORNER,  JACOB  S.— Surgeon,  53rd  Infantry. 

HOUGHLAND,  WILLIAM  T.— Asst.  Surg.,  25th  In- 
fantry. 

HOUSER,  JACOB  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  10th  Cavalry. 

HOWARD,  NOBLE  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  12th  Infantry. 

HUMPHREYS,    LOUIS— Surgeon.    29th    Infantry. 

HUNT,  ANDREW  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  33rd  Infantry. 

HUNTER,  JAMES  B.— Surgeon,  60th  Infantry. 

HLTRD,  ANSON— Surgeon,  14th  Infantry;  Asst.  Surg., 
20th   Infantry. 

HUTCHINSON,   DAVID— Surgeon,   30th   Infantry. 

IRELAND,  WILLIAM  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  22nd  Infantry. 

IRWIN,  GEORGE  E.— Asst.  Surg.,  93rd  Infantry. 

JAQUESS,  GEORGE  D.— Surgeon,  80th  Infantry. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         195 

JAY,  JAMES  C— Asst.  Surg.,  7th  Cavalry. 

JEANCON,  JOHN  ALLARD— Surgeon,  32nd  Infantry 

JESSUP,   ROBERT   B.— Surgeon,   24th    Infantry. 

JOHNSON,  ISAAC  C— Asst.  Surg.,  153rd  Infantry. 

JOHNSON,   JARVIS  J.— Surgeon,   27th   Infantry 

JOHNSON,  JOHN  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  72nd  InfantVv. 

JOHNSON,  SAIMUEL  F.— Surgeon,  G5th  Infantry 

JOHNSON,  THOMAS  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  25th  Infantry. 

JOHNSON,  WILLIAM  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  85th  Infantry. 

JONES,  CALEB  V.— Surgeon,  63rd  Infantry. 

JONES,  GEORGE  W.— Asst.  Surg.,     63rd  Infantry. 

JONES,  HARRY— Asst.  Surg.,  57th  Infantry. 

JONES,   JAMES   T.— Asst.   Surg.,   132nd  Infkntry. 

JONES,  JOHN  H.— Asst.  Surg..  13th  Cavalry.     " 

JONES,   JOSEPH— Surgeon,   86th   Infantry. 

JONES,  THOMAS  N.— Asst.  Surg.,  2nd  Cavalry;   Sur- 
geon, 130th  Infantry, 

JONES,  WILLIAM  B.— Surgeon.   ]4Pth  Infantry. 

JOSSE,  JOHN  M.— Surgeon,  32nd  Infantry. 

KAY,    ROBERT— Asst.    Surg.,    23rd    Infantrv;     Asst. 
Surg.,  144th  Infantry. 

KAY,  DAVID  G.— Surgeon,  81st  Infantry 

KEEN,  LORENZO  S.— Surgeon,  29th  Infantry. 

KEISER,   ALFRED— Asst.    Surg.,    124th   Infantry. 

KETLY,  MATHEW— Asst.  Surg.,  82nd  Infantry. 

KELSO,  WILLIAM  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  81st  Infantry. 

KEMPER,   GENERAL  W.  H.— Asst.   Surg.,   I7th  Inf. 

KENDRICK,    WILLIAM    H.— Asst.    Surg.,    luth    In- 
fantry. 

KENNEDY,  HAMLET  K.— Asst.  Surg..  13th  Infantry. 

KENNEDY,  LEROY  H.— Asst.  Surg..  70th  Infantry. 

KERSEY,  SILAS  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  36th  Infantry;  Sur- 
geon, 36th  Infantry. 

KILGORE,   TECUMSEH— Asst.   Surg.,   84th   Infantry; 
Asst.  Surg.,  13th  Cavalry;   Surgeon,  13th  Cavalry. 

KILLEN,  JAMES— Asst.   Surg.,   10th   Infantry. 

KIMBALL,  ABNER  D.— Asst.  Surg.,  4Sth  Infantry. 

KING,  HENRY  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  51st  Infantry. 

KING,    WILLIAM    F.— Asst.    Surg.,    124th    Infantry; 

Surgeon,  147th  Infantry. 
KIRBY,  HENRY— Surgeon,  84th  Infantrv. 
KIRKPATRICK,   GEORGE  W.— Asst.   Surg.,  72nd  In- 
fantry. 
KNIGHT,  JAMES  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  3rd  Cavalry. 
KRAUTH,  FERDINAND— Surgeon,  32nd  Infantrv. 
KUESTER,    CHARLES    E.— Asst.     Surg.,     133rd    In- 
fantry;   Surgeon,  156th  Infantry. 


196         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

KUNKLER,    GUSTAVE    A.— Surgeon,    32nd    Infantry. 

LAMBEY,  LOUIS— Asst.  Surg.,  14th  Infantry. 

LANSING,  SYLVESTER— Asst.  Surg.,  48th  Infantry; 
Asst.  Surg.,  49th  U.  S.  C.  T. 

LARKIN,  JOHN  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  17th  Infantry;  Sur- 
geon,   17th    Infantry. 

LATTIMORE,  FINLEY  C— Asst.  Surg.,  6th  Infantry. 

LEAVITT,  PHILANDER  C— Surgeon,  100th  Infantry. 

LEECH,    ELLIOTT    W.— Asst.    Surg.,    123rd    Infantry. 

LE'EDY,   JOHN   K.— Surgeon,    74th   Infantry. 

LEMON,  WILLIAM  H.— Surgeon,   82nd   Infantry. 

LENT,  CYRUS  V.  N.— Surgeon,  101st  Infantry;  Sur- 
geon, 138th  Infantrv. 

LEWIS,  ELI— Surgeon, ''65th  Infantry. 

LEWIS,   SAMUEL  B.— Surgeon,   10th   Cavalry. 

LIDDALL.  JAMES  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  22nd  Infantry. 

LININGER,  DANIEL  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  7th  Infantry. 

LOMAX,    WILLIAM— Surgeon,     12th    Infantry. 

McCarthy,   JOHN   F.— Surgeon,  29th  Infantry. 

McCHRISTIE,  JOHN— Asst.   Surg.,   9th   Cavah'V. 

McClelland,   JAMES    S.— Surgeon,    135th   Infantrv. 

McCLURE,   SAMUEL  M.— Asst.   Surg.,  37th  Infantry. 

McCOY,  GEORGE  K.— Asst.  Surg.,  35th  Infantry. 

McCOY,  JAMES  A.  C— Asst.  Surg.,  49th  Infantry. 

McCOY,    JOHN— Surgeon,    139th    Infantry. 

McCREA,   THOMAS   P.— Surgeon,    10th   Infantry. 

McCUNE,   GEORGE   W.— Surgeon,   14th  Infantry. 

McFADDEN,   WILLIAM    G.— Surgeon,    79th    Infantry. 

McGEE,    RICHARD— Asst.    Surg.,    100th    Infantry. 

McKINNEY,  ASA  W.— Surgeon,  31st  Infantry. 

McNUTT,  JAMES  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  97th  Infantry. 

McPHEETERS,  JOHN  S.— Surgeon,  23rd  Infantry. 

McPHEETERS,  JOSEPH  G.— Surgeon,  14th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,  33rd  Infantry. 

MAGANN,  EDWIN  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  9th  Cavalry. 

MAGENISS,   JOHN— Asst.    Surg.,    42nd    Infantry. 

MANI^ER,   LEWIS— Surgeon,   79th   Infantry. 

MARTIN,  JAMES  W.— Surgeon,  52nd  Infantry. 

MARTIN,  SAMUEL  F.— Asst.  Surg.,  65th  Infantry. 

MARTIN,  WILLIAM  H.— Surgeon,  10th  Infantry. 

MARTIN,  W.  W.— Surgeon,  44th  Infantry. 

MASON,    FERDINANT)— Surgeon,    13th    Infantry. 

MEEK,  JOHN  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  89th  Infantry. 

MEEKER,   DANIEL— Surgeon,   9th   Infantry. 

MEEKER,   LYSANDEB— Asst.    Surg.,   128th   Infantrv. 

MELSCHEIMER,  CHARLES  T.— Asst.  Surg.,  101st  In- 
fantry. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         197 

MENDENHALL,  WILLIAM  T.— Asst.  Surer.,  o7th  Inf. 

MERCER,  WILLIAM  M.— Asst.  Surg.,   152nd  Inf. 

MEREDITH,  MARION— Asst.   Surg.,   dSth   Infantry. 

MERIT,  NATHANIEL  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  31st  Infantry. 

MESSNER,  SAMUEL  F.— Asst.  Surg.,  1 16th  Infantry. 

MILLER,  JAMES— Asst.  Surg.,  30th  Infantry. 

MILLS,  JAMES  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  47th  Infantry. 

MILNER,  ISAAC  N.— Asst.   Surg.,   53rd   Infantry. 

MITCHELL,  ELISHA  V.— Surgeon,  91st  Infantry. 

MITCHELL,  ROBEUT— Asst.  Surg.,  38th  Infantry. 

MITCHELL,  ROBERT  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  57th  Infantry. 

MOFFITT,   JOHN— Asst.    Surg.,   33rd   Infantry. 

MONROE,  JASPER  R.— Surgeon,  49th  Infantry. 

MONTEITH,  JACOB  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  69th  Infantry. 

MONTGOMERY,  GEORGE  B.— Surgeon,  24th  Infantry. 

MORGAN,  JAMES  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  31st  Infantry. 

MORROW,  DOCTOR  F.— Asst.   Surg.,   13th   Cavalry. 

MORROW,  JAMES  L.— Surgeon,  72nd  Infantry. 

MOSS,  GORDON,  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  87th  Infantry;  Sur- 
geon, 151st  Infantry. 

MULLEN,  ALEXANDER  J.— Surgeon,  35th  Infantry. 

MULLINIX,  MASTON  G.— Asst.  Surg.,  I49th  Infantry. 

MUNFORD,  SAMUEL  E.— Asst.  Surg.,  17th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,    17th  Infantry. 

MURPHY,   ALEXANDER   D.— Asst.    Surg.,   97th  Inf. 

MURPHY,  ALEXANDER  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  97th  In- 
fantry;   Surgeon,  97th  Infantry. 

MURRAY,  RALPH  V.— Asst.  Surg.,  137th  Infantry. 

MYERS,  SETH  F.— Surgeon,  73rd  Infantry. 

MYERS,   WILLIAM   D.— Surgeon,  88th   Infantry. 

MYEHS,  WILLIAM  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  10th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,  30th  Infantry. 

NEAT,  THOMAS  C— Asst.  Surg.,  144th  Infantry. 

NEELY,  JOHN  M.— Surgeon,  120th  Infantry. 

NELSON,  WILLIAM  Y.— Asst.  Surg.,  128th  Infantry. 

NEW,  GEORGE  W.— Surgeon,  7th  Infantry. 

NEWLAND,  BENJAMIN— Surgeon,  22nd  Infantry. 

NICHOLS,  JOHN  D.— Asst.   Surg.,  38th  Infantry. 

O'FERRELL,  ROBEET  M.— Surgeon,  40th  Infantry. 

OLDS,  JOSEPH  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  6th  Cavalry. 

O'NEAL,  LAUGHLIN— Surgeon,   153rd  Infantry. 

ORR,  JAMES  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  36th  Infantry. 

OSGOOD,  HOWARD  G.— Asst.  Surg.,  5th  Cavalry. 

PARKS,   EDWARD   R.— Surgeon,   30th  Infantry. 

PARSONS,  GEORGE  W.— Asst.   Surg.,   35th  Infantry. 

PATTEN,  JAMES  C— Asst.  Surg.,  1st  Cavalry;  Asst. 
Surg.,  58th  Infantry. 


198         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IlsWIAlSW. 

PATTERSON,  JOHN  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  1st  Cavalry. 

PATTISON,  GEORGE  W.— Surgeon,  ISOtli  Infantry. 

PEARCE,  JOHN  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  51st  Infantry. 

PEARMAN,    FRANCIS    M.— Surgeon,    30th    Infantry. 

PEARSON,  CHARLES  D.— Surgeon,  49th  Infantry; 
Surgeon.  82nd  Infantry. 

PECK,  SAMUEL  W.— Surgeon,   18th  Infantry. 

PEGANN,    EMANUEL— Surgeon,    155th   Infantry. 

PERKINS,  CONRAD  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  10th  Infantry. 

PHIPPS.  JOHN  M.— Surgeon,  132nd  Infantry. 

PIATT.  WILLIAM  C— Asst.  Surg.,  140th  Infantry. 

PiCKTHALL.    ARTHUR— Asst.    Surg.,    49th    Infantry. 

PITCHER,    STEWART    C— Surgeon,    143rd    Infantry. 

PLUMMER,  ISAAC  N.— Asst.   Surg.,  44th  Infantry. 

POFFENBERGER,  ISAIAH— Asst.  Surg.,  99th  In- 
fantry. 

POPE.  HENRY  E.— Asst.  Surg.,  54th  Infantry. 

PORTER,    JOHN   P.— Asst.    Suro-..    89th    Infantry. 

POTTENGER.    WILSON— Asst.  "^Surg.,    73rd   Infantry. 

POTTS,  JOHN— Asst.  Surg.,  40th  Infantry. 

PRATT,  SAMUEL  R.— Surgeon,  12th  Cayalry;  Sur- 
geon,  87th   Infantry. 

PRESTON,  ALBERT  G.— Surgeon,  55th  Infantry. 

PRICHET,  JOHN— Surgeon,  57th  Infantry. 

PRUNK,  DANIEL  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  20th  Infantry. 

RALSTON,  WILLIAM  G.— Surgeon,  81st  Infantry. 

READ,  EZRA— Surgeon,  11th  Cavalry;  Surgeon,  21st 
Infantry.   1st   Heavy  Artillerv. 

REAGAN,  AMOS  W.— Surgeon,  70th  Infantry. 

REAGAN,   JESSE— Surgeon,    148th   Infantry. 

REED,  ALBERT  S.— Asst.   Surg.,  147th  Infantry. 

RERICK.  JOHN  11.— Surgeon,  44th   Infantry. 

REYNOLDS,  ROBERT  c!— Asst.  Surg.,  43rd  Infantry. 

RICHARDS,  SA]\njEL  D.— Surgeon,  59th  Infantry. 

RICHARDSON,  ADAMSON  G.— Asst.  Surg.,  154th  In- 
fantry. 

RIFFLE,  JOHN  S.— Asst.   Surg.,  40th  Infantry. 

RITTER.   JOHN  A.— Surgeon,  49th  Infantry. 

ROBINSON,  JOHN  A,— Asst.  Surg.,  11th  Cavalry. 

ROBINSON.  LAWSON  D.— Asst.  Surg.,  99th  Infantry. 

ROBSON,  JOHN  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  1st  Cavalry;  Asst. 
Surg.,  91st  Infantry. 

ROBSON,   ROBERT— Surgeon,  91st  Infantry. 

ROCKWELL,   WILLIAM— Asst.    Surg.,    11th   Infantry. 

ROE,  JOHN  L.— Surgeon,  137th  Infantry. 

ROETHER,  DANIEL  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  7th  Cavalry. 

ROGERS,  DUDLEY"— Surgeon,  59th  Infantry. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         109 

ROOKER,  JAMES   I.— Asst.  Sur^^,   lltli   Infantry. 

ROSE.  MADISON  H.— Sur^^eon.  53rd  Infantrv. 

RUPERT,  DELOS  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  30th  Infantry. 

RUSSELL,  GEORGE  H.— Asst.  Surg..  5th  Cavalry. 

RUSSELL,  ISAAC  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  99th  Infantry. 

RUTER.    RINALDO    R.— Surgeon,    93rd    Infantry 

RUTLEDGE.  WILLIAM— Asst.  Surg.,  2nd  Cavalry. 

RYAN.   TO WNSEND— Surf/eon,   54th   Infantry.      ^ 

SARIN,  ELIAS  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  14th  Infantry. 

SADLER,  JOSEPH  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  16th  Infantry. 

SALISBURY.  DAVID— Asst.  Surg..  128th  Infantry. 

SCEARCE,  JOHN  C— Surgeon,   11th  Infantry. 

SCHELL,  FREDERICK  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  6th  Cavalry. 

SCHMIDT.  GUSTAVUS  A.— Asst.  Sur<z..  6th  Cavalry. 

SCHUSSLER,  CHARLES— Surgeon,  6th  Infantry. 

SCOTT,  WILLIAM— Surgeon,  89th  Infantrv. 

SCOTT.  WILLIAM  G.— Asst.   Surg.,  8th   Cavalry. 

SCUDDER,  JOHN  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  65th  Infantry. 

SEXTON,    MARSHALL— Surgeon,    52nd   Infantry. 

SHAFFEPt,   ABNER   H.— Surgeon,   75th    Infantry. 

SHAPLEY,  WILLIAM  W.— Surgeon,  42nd  Infantry. 

SHELDON,   GEORGE  W.— Surgeon,  74th  Infantry. 

SHERMAN,  MASON  G.— Surgeon,   9th  Infantrv. 

SHEPROD,  WILLIAM  F.— Surgeon,  21st  Infantry. 

SHERWIN,  HERMAN  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  152nd  Infantry 

SHORT,  WESLEY— Asst.   Surg.,  26th  Infantry. 

SIMMS,  JOHN  M.— Asst.   Surg.,  76th  Infantry. 

SIMONSON,  JAMES  C— Surgeon,  66th  Infantry. 

SLAUGHTEP,    ROBERT     C— Asst.     Surg.,    25th    In- 
fantry; Surgeon,  53rd  Infantry, 

SLAUGHTER,  WILLIAM  W.— Surgeon, '60th  Infantrv. 

SLAVENS,    ZENAS    L.— Asst.    Surg.,    115th    Infantry. 

SMITH,  ANTDREW  J.— Asst.   Surg.,  2nd  Cavalry. 

SMITH,  JOHN  W.— Surgeon,  155th  Infantry. 

SMITH,  WILLIAM  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  70th  Infantry. 

SMITH,  WILLIAM  Z.— Asst.  Surg.,  49th  Infantry. 

SMYDTH,   WILLIAM   C— Surgeon,   43rd  Infantry. 

SMYTHE,  GONSOLVO  C— Surgeon,  43rd  Infantry. 

SPAIN,  ARCHIBALD  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  80th  Infantry; 
Asst.   Surg.,   136th   Infantry. 

SPARKS,  NATHAN  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  6th  Infantry. 

SPEED,  EDWARD  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  44th  Infantry. 

SPENCER,  ROBERT— Surgeon,  73rd  Infantry. 

SPENCER,    WILLIAM- Asst.    Surg.,    46th    Infantry; 

Asst.   Surg.,  73rd  Infantry. 
SPOTTSWOOD,  EDMUND  T.— Surgeon,  6th  Cavalry. 


200         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

SPURRIER,    JOHN   H.— Asst.    Surg.,    16th    Infantry; 

Surgeon,  123rd  Infantry. 
SQUIRE,   WILLIAM    B.— Asst.    Surg.,    14tli    Infantry. 
ST.  CLAIR,  OWEN— Asst.   Surg.,  142nd  Infantry. 
STEARNS,  ELIAS  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  72nd  Infantry. 
STEWART,  WILLIAM  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  47tli  Infantry. 
STILLWELL,    JOSEPH    A.— Surgeon,    22nd    Infantry. 
STUKEY,  JOHN  M.— Asst.   Surg.,   59th  Infantry. 
SWAFFORD,  BENJAMIN  F.— Surgeon,  11th  Cavalry. 
SWARTZ,  DAVID  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  100th  Infantry. 
SWEENY,    THOMAS    J.— Asst.    Surg.,   43rd    Infantry. 
SWEEZY,  WILLIAM  C— Surgeon,  140th  Infantry. 
TAGGART,  JOHN  F.— Surgeon,  4th  Cavalry. 
TAYLOR,    ALFRED    B.— Asst.    Surg.,    12th    Infantry. 
TAYLOR,   DANIEI.  W.— Surgeon,   34th   Infantry. 
TAYLOR,  WILLIAM  D.— Surgeon,  42nd  Infantry. 
TEAL,  NORMAN— Asst.  Surg.,  88th  Infantrv. 
THOIMAS,  CHARLES  L.— Surgeon,  25th  Infantry. 
THOMAS,  ELIAS  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  4th  Cavalry. 
THOJMAS,  JAMES  H.— Asst.  Surg.,  117th  Infantry. 
THOMAS.  JOHN  H.— Asst.   Surg.,  49th   Infantry. 
THOMPSON,  JOHN  C— Surgeon,  11th  Infantry. 
TILFORD,  JOHN  H.— Asst.   Surg.,  79th  Infantry. 
TILLSON,  HOSEA— Asst.  Surg,  and  Surgeon,  57th  In- 
TILMAN,  JONATHAN  R.— Asst.  Surg.,  60th  Infantry. 

fantry. 
TODD,  ROBERT  N.— Surgeon,  26th  Infantry. 
TODD,  WILLIAM  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  11th  Infantry. 
TOLERTON,   JAMES— Surgeon,    129th   Infantry. 
TORBET,  GEORGE  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  26th  Infantry. 
TRIPLETT,  CHARLES  E.— Surgeon,  87th  Infantry. 
TA^T:F0RD,  WILLIS  H.— Surgeon,  27th   Infantry. 
TYNER,  SAMUEL  L.— Asst.  Surg.,  42nd  Infantry. 
UNDERHILL,   JOSHUA   W\— Surgeon,   46th   Infantry. 
VAILE,  JOEI^Surgeon,  2nd  Cavalry. 
VAN  VORIS,  FLAVIUS  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  86th  Infantry. 
VINCENT,  HENRY  C— Asst.  Surg.,  83rd  Infantry. 
VINCENT,  JEREMIAH  K.— Asst.  Surg.,  33rd  Infantry. 
VOYLES,  DAVID  W.— Surgeon,  66th  Infantry. 
WALKER,  AUGUSTUS  C— Asst.  Surg..  63rd  Infantry. 
WALKER,  JOHN  T.— Surgeon,  25th  Infantry. 
WALLACE,  JAMES   P.— Asst.    Surg.,    150th  Infantry. 
WALTON,  ALLEN  M.— Surgeon,   13th  Cavalry;   Asst. 

Surg.,  86th  Infantry. 
WASHBURN,  ISRAEL  B.— Surgeon,  46th  Infantry. 
WATERMAN,  LUTHER  D.— Surgeon,  8th  Cavalry. 
WEAVER,  SAMUEL  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  83rd  Infantry. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    O/'    JXDIAXA.         201 

WEBB,  WILLIAM  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  70th  Infantry. 

WEDDINGTON,  SAMUEL  C— Asst.  Surg.,  147th  In- 
fantry. 

W^EIR,  ANDREW  N.— Surgeon,  6th  Cavalry. 

WELBORN,  WILLIAM  P.— Surgeon,   80th^ Infantry. 

WELLS,   JAMES   C— Asst.    Surg.,    50th    Infantry. 

WELMAN,  RICHMOND  :\I.— Surgeon,  Oth   Cavalry. 

WHITAKETl,   ELI  D.— Surgeon,  38th   Infantry. 

WHITE,  ARTHUR— Asst.   Surg.,  25th  Infantry. 

WHITE,   JACOB   S.— Surgeon,   34th   Infantry.^ 

WHITE,  JAMES  B.— Asst.  Surg.,   75th  Infantry. 

WHITE,  JOHN  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  70th  Infantry. 

WHITEHALL,    ALEXANDER    L.— Asst.    Surg.,    60th. 

WHITESELL,  JOSEPH  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  36th  In- 
fantry. 

WHITESELL,  PHILIP  P.— Surgeon,  101st  Infantry. 

WIDMER,  JOHN  F.  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  49th  Infantry. 

WILES,  WILLIAM  V.— Asst.  Surg..  85th  Infantry. 

WILLIAMSON,  ELEAZER— Asst.  Surg.,  130th'  In- 
fantry. 

WILLIAMSON,  ROBERT  A.— Surgeon,  10th  Infantry. 

WILLIAMSON,  THOMAS  W.  C— Asst.  Surg.,  24th  In- 
fantry. 

WILSON,  ISAAC— Asst.  Surg.,  137th  Infantry. 

WILSON,  JACOB  B.— Asst.  Surg.,  123rd  Infantry. 

WILSON,  JAMES— Asst.  Surg.,  11th  Infantry. 

WINANS,  RICHARD— Asst.  Surg.,  17th  Infantry. 

WaSHARD,  JOSEPH  M.— Surgeon,  5th  Cavalryl 

WITT,  WILLIAM  B.— Surgeon,  69th  Infantry. 

WOLF,  HARVEY  S.— Surgeon,  81st  Infantry. 

W^ONSETLEPv,   GIDEON— Asst.    Surg.,    15th*^  Infantry. 

WOOD,  JAMES  A.— Asst.  Surg.,  12th  Cavalry. 

WOODEN,  JOHN  L.— Surgeon,  68th  Infantry. 

WOODS,  CALVIN  J.— Surgeon,  19th  Infantry. 

WOODS,  DANIEL  L.— Asst.  Surg.,  21st  Infantry,  1st 
Heavy  Artillery;  Asst.  Surg.,  138th  Infantry; 
Asst.  Surg.,   153rd  Infantry. 

WOOLEN,  GREEN  V.— Asst.  Surg.,  27th  Infantry. 

WRIGHT,  IVY  E.— Asst.  Surg.,  116th  Infantry. 

YOUART,  JOHN  M.— Asst.  Surg.,  15th  Infantry; 
Surgeon,  15th  Infantry. 

SURGEONS  IN  COLORED  REGIMENTS. 

EASTMAN,  JOSEPH— Asst.    Surg.,   44th   U.   S.   C.   T. 
STRONG,  JOHN  T.— Surgeon,  44th  U.  S.  C.  T. 


202         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

THOMPSOX,   JAMES   L.— Surgeon,   4th   U.    S.   Heavy 

Artille^3^ 
WEIST,  JACOB  R.— Surgeon,  1st  U.  S.  C.  T. 

SURGEONS  IN  MINUTE  MEN  REGIMENTS. 

"Late  on  the  evening  of  July  8,  1863,  intelligence 
was  received  at  Indianapolis,  that  a  rebel  force,  esti- 
mated to  be  six  thousand  cavalry,  with  four  pieces 
of  artillery,  under  command  of  Gen,  John  H.  Morgan, 
had  crossed  the  Ohio  river  near  Mauckport,  and  was 
moving  on  Cor^^don,  Ind.  Governor  Morton  at  once 
issued  a  patriotic  call  upon  the  citizens  of  the  State, 
to  leave  their  various  occupations  and  organize  for 
defense.  Under  this  call,  within  the  short  space  of 
forty-eight  hours,  sixty-five  thousand  men  had  ten- 
dered their  services.  Of  this  force,  thirteen  regiments 
and  one  batallion  were  organized  specially  for  this 
emergency,  and  the  regiments  designated  numerically, 
from  One  Hundred  and  Second  to  One  Hundred  and 
Fourteenth,  inclusive,  the  batallion  being  assigned  to 
the  One  Hundred  and  Seventh  Regiment." — Report  of 
Adjutant  General  of  Indiana,  Vol.  iii,  p.  189. 

The  usual  number  of  surgeons  were  not  supplied 
to  these  regiments.  They  were  in  the  service  but  a 
few  days. 

BOUNELT..  MATHEW  H.— Suroeon,   102Tifl   Recriment. 
BUCK.  ROBERT  H.— Surgeon  103d  Regiment.  ^ 
HARRISON,    THOMAS   H.— Asst.    Surg.,    102nd    Reg. 
THOMAS,  L.  C— Surgeon,  104th  Regiment. 
McCLAIN.  JAMES— Asst.  Surg.,  104th  Regiment. 
WHEELDOX,  JOHN— Asst.  Surg.,  104th  Regiment. 
SPURRIER.  JOHN  H.— Surgeon,  105th  Regiment. 
KELLOG.  NORoNIAN  P.— Asst.  Surg.,  105th  Regiment. 
CHITWOOD,   JOSHUA— Asst.    Surg.,    106th    Regiment. 
PARVIN,  THEOPHILUS— Surgeon,  107th  Regiment. 
CONSTANT.  JOHN  H.— Surgeon.  108th  Reo-iment. 
MOORE,   ANDERSON  M.— Asst.   Surg.,   108th  Reg. 
MAY,  WILLIS  L.— Asst.  Surg.,  108th  Regiment. 
JOHNSON,  JARVIS  J.— Surgeon,  109th  Regiment. 
HALL,  DANIEL  D.— Surgeon,  111th  Regiment. 
BEARD,  FERDINAND  W.— Surgeon,  112th  Regiment. 
BARE,    ADDISON   W.— Asst.    Surg.,    112th    Regiment. 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF   INDIANA.         203 

PARMERLEE,  H.  M.— Surgeon,  113th  Regiment. 
WOOD,  MEREDITH— Asst.  Surg.,  113th  Regiment. 

NOTE. — No    medical    officers    were    supplied    to    the 
110th  and  114th  regiments. 

Medical    Officers    FRo:\r    INDIA^TA    Commis- 
sioned BY   the   PrESIDEXT,  VOLUNTEERS, 

1861-65. 

John  S.  Bobbs,  surgeon. 
William  D.  Stewart,  surgeon. 
William  C.  Thompson,  surgeon. 
Charles  S.  Frink,  surgeon. 
James  M.  Study,  assistant  surgeon. 

REGULAR    ARMY. 

Charles  McDougall,  born  in  Ohio,  entered 
service  from  Indiana  as  assistant  surgeon,  July 
13,  1832;  major  surgeon,  July  7,  1838:  lieuten- 
ant colonel  and  assistant  medical  purveyor,  July 
,28,  1866;  retired  Feb.  22,  1869^;  brevet  colonei, 
Xov.  24,  1864,  and  brigadier  general,  March 
13,  1865,  for  faithful  and  meritorious  service 
during  the  civil  war.  Died  July  25,  1885. — 
Historical  Eegister  and  Dictionary  of  the  TJ.  S. 
Army,  Heitman,  vol.  i,  p.  663. 

John  Moore,  born  in  Indiana,  entered  service 
as  assistant  surgeon,  June  29,  1853;  major  sur- 
geon, June  11,  1862;  lieutenant  colonel,  assistant 
medical  purveyor,  Oct.  8,  1883;  brigadier  gen- 
eral, surgeon  general,  N'ov.  18,  1886;  retired 
Aug.  16,  1890.  Brevet  lieutenant  colonel.  Sept. 
1,  1864,  for  gallant  and  meritorious  service  dur- 
ing the  Atlanta  campaign,  and  colonel,  March 
13,  1865,  for  faithful  and  meritorious  services 
during  the  war. — lb.,  p.  723. 


204         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

George  Winfield  Stipp,  born  in  Virginia.  Was 
first  lieutenant  4th  111.  Inf.  from  Jul}'  4,  1846, 
to  Aug.  30^  1846.  x^ppointed  surgeon  volunteers 
Sept.  21,  1861 ;  lieut.  col.  medical  inspector, 
March  12,  1863,  mustered  out  Oct.  31,  1865. 
Died  Aug.  22,  1879.  Formerh-  lived  and  prac- 
ticed at  Indianapolis. — lb.,  p.  926. 

VOLUNTEER  NAVY* ACTING  ASSISTANT  SURGEON « 

(civil  WAR). 

Philip  H.  Barton. 
George  F.  Beasle3^ 
William  Commons. 
David  G.  Curtis. 
William  C.  Foster. 
Thomas  F.  Leech. 
Jacob  J.  Smith. 

SPANISH-AMERICAN  WAR. 

Indiana  equipped  and  sent  out  five  regiments  for 
this  war;  and  furnished  them  with  five  regimental 
surgeons,  eleven  regimental  assistant  surgeons,  three 
surgeons  in  the  volunteer  army  appointed  by  the 
President,  and  fifteen  hospital  stewards,  making  a 
total  of  thirty-four  medical  officers.  An  alphabetical 
list  of  their  names  is  given: 

BARCUS,  PAUL  J.— Asst.  Surg.,  158th  Regiment, 
Indiana   Infantry. 

BARNETT,  CHARLES  E.— Asst.  Surg.,  157th  Regi- 
ment, Indiana  Infantry. 

BARNETT,  WALTER  w"!— Surgeon,  157th  Regiment, 
Indiana   Infantry. 

BUEHLER,  EUGENE— Asst.  Surg.,  160th  Regiment, 
Indiana   Infantry. 


*  William  Maxwell  Wood,  rank  captain,  entered  the  Navy. 
May  16,  1829.  He  was  a  native  of  Maryland,  from  which 
state  he  was  appointed,  but  claimed  his  residence  in 
Indiana. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIWA.         205 

CHAELTOX,  FRED  R.— Surgeon,  loStli  Regiment, 
Indiana  Infantry. 

DAVIS,  WILLIAM'  S.— Asst.  Surg.,  159th  Regiment, 
Indiana  Infantry. 

FOXWORTHY,  FRAXK  W.— Asst.  Surg..  160th  Regi- 
ment, Indiana  Infantry. 

GARSTAX'G,  REGIXALD  W.— Asst.  Surg.,  lo7th 
Regiment.  Indiana  Infantry. 

GERRISH,  MILLARD  F.— Asst.  Surg.,  161st  Regi- 
ment,  Indiana   Infantry. 

HA\AavIXS,  EUGEXE— Asst.  Surg.,  loOth  Regiment, 
Indiana  Infantry. 

JOXES,  HOMER  I.— Asst.  Surg.,  158th  Regiment, 
Indiana   Infantrj^ 

KYLE,  JOHX  J.— Surgeon.  160th  Regiment.  Indiana 
Infantry. 

SIVER,  EMMETT  L.— Surgeon,  157th  Regiment, 
Indiana  Infantry. 

SMITH.  WICLIFFE— Surgeon.  161st  Regiment.  Indi- 
ana Infantry. 

STUX^vARD,  THOMAS  C— Surgeon,  159th  Regiment, 
Indiana  Infantry. 

WILSOX",  JAMES— Asst.  Surg.,  161st  Regiment,  Indi- 
ana Infantry. 

LIST  OF  SURGEONS  APPOINTED  BY  THE  PRESI- 
DENT IN  THE  VOLUNTEER  ARMY  OF 
THE   UNITED   STATES. 

EXGLISH,  CALVIX^  H.— Major  and  Briaade  Surgeon. 
KBLBALL,  THOMAS  C— Major  and  Chief  Surgeon. 
PEYTOX',    DAVID    C— Major    and    Brigade    Surgeon. 

HOSPITAL   STEWARDS. 

E'SPEl^  JAMES  G.— 161st  Resiment,  Indiana  Infantry. 

HAWKINS,  ROBERT  W.— 159th  Regiment,  Indiana 
Infantry. 

LAXGDOX',  HARRY'  K.— 159th  Regiment.  Indiana  In- 
fantry. 

LEWIS,   JOHX  I.— 161st  Regiment.   Indiana  Infantry. 

MOORE,  HARRY  S.— 158th  Regiment,  Indiana  In- 
fantry. 

MOORE,  HARVEY  A.— 157th  Regiment,  Indiana  In- 
fantry. 

XEWLAND,  HARROD  C.— 158th  Regiment,  Indiana 
Infantry. 


206         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

PFAFF,  JOHN  A.,  160tli  Eegiment,  Indicana  Infantry. 

RATHERT,  WILLIAM  IL— 161st  Regiment,  Indiana 
Infantry. 

SCHULTZ,  GUY  A.— 157th  Regiment,  Indiana  In- 
fantry. 

SHELL,  "OGDEN  G.— 157th  Regiment,  Indiana  In- 
fantry. 

SOMMER,  EDGAR  L.— 160th  Regiment,  Indiana  In- 
fantry. 

STARRETT,  WALTER  K.— 160th  Regiment,  Indiana 
Infantry. 

TOWNSEND,  TEHRY  M.— 159th  Regiment,  Indiana 
Infantry. 

WRIGHT,  CHARLES  E.— 158th  Regiment,  Indiana  In- 
fantry. 


CHAPTER    XX 


Medical  History  of  Madisox  Couxty. 

Dr.  Jonas  Stewart,  of  Anderson,  a  physician 
well  qualified  for  the  task,  has  kindly  furnished 
me  the  following  interesting  medical  history  of 
Madison  County: 

Madison  County  was  first  settled  by  white  men 
in  1820,  four  years  after  the  admission  of  the 
state  into  the  Federal  Union.  The  first  settle- 
ment was  at  Pendleton,  near  the  falls  of  Fall 
Creek,  in  the  south  part  of  the  county.  About 
one  year  after  the  above  date,  in  1821,  a  settle- 
ment was  made  at  Anderson  on  White  Eiver. 
Within  a  few  years  settlements  were  also  made  at 
Chesterfield,  Hamilton  and  Perkinsville,  on 
White  Eiver,  at  Huntsville  and  Xew  Columbus, 
on  Fall  Creek,  and  later,  also,  at  Fishersburg,  on 
Stony  Creek,  near  the  western  boundar}^,  and  at 
Moonsville,  on  Big  Kilbuck  Creek,  about  ten 
miles  north  of  Anderson.  The  country  north  of 
White  Eiver  remained  for  the  greater  part,  an 
unbroken  forest  for  twenty  or  thirty  years  after 
the  forming  of  the  settlements  above  named,  in 
south  half  of  the  county. 

The  county  was  organized  Xovember  10,  1823, 
and  the  county  seat  located  at  Pendleton,  the 
oldest  and  largest  settlement,  where  it  remained 
until  1836,  when  it  was  removed  to  Anderson, 
which  was  a  more  central  location.     It  was  not 


208         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

until  about  this  time  that  settlements  were  made 
at  Alexandria  and  Elwood^  and  still  later,  at 
Frankton  and  Summitville. 

The  first  physician  to  locate  in  the  county  for 
the  practice  of  his  profession  was  Dr.  Lewis 
Bordwell,  who  located  at  Pendleton  about  the 
time  the  county  was  organized.  He  is  mentioned 
in  the  early  chronicles  of  the  county,  and  char- 
acterized as  a  "pleasant,  genial  gentleman,  who 
occasionally  imbibed  too  freely  of  ardent  spirits, 
and  when  intoxicated,  sometimes  boasted  of  his 
success  as  a  practitioner,  dec''aring  that  he  had 
never  lost  a  patient."  He  practiced  at  Pendleton 
only  two  or  three  years,  and  removed  to  Iowa, 
where  he  died.  He  was  followed  at  Pendleton  by 
Drs.  John  L.  and  Corydon  Eichmond,  the  former 
of  whom  receives  more  extended  notice  elsewhere 
in  these  sketches.  A  few  years  later,  Dr.  Edwin 
Fussell  and  Dr.  M.  G.  Walker  located  here,  and 
still  later  came  also  the  brothers,  John  H.  and 
Ward  Cook.  Both  Dr.  Fussell  and  Dr.  Walker 
receive  honorable  mention  in  Forkner  and  Dy- 
son^s  History  of  Madison  County,  in  connection 
with  the  mobbing  of  Hon.  Frederick  Douglass  at 
Pendleton  in  1843.*  Dr.  AYalker  is  credited  with 
saving  the  life  of  Mr.  Douglass  on  that  occasion, 
and  Dr.  Fussell  with  taking  him  into  his  house, 
and  rendering  surgical  aid  to  the  injured  man. 

The  first  physician  to  locate  at  Anderson  was 
a  Dr.  Burt,  of  whom  little  is  now  known.  It  is 
said,  however,  that  he  was  both  doctor  and  school 
teacher,  and  that  he  was  a  small  man,  and  slightly 

*  This  mobbing  of  Mr.  Douglass  occurred  on  Sept.  16, 
1843.— G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    J X DIANA.         200 

lame.  He  remained  in  Anderson  two  years,  from 
1827  to  1829.  [I  think  this  is  Dr.  Dickinson 
Burt,  the  first  physician,  also,  to  locate  in  Dela- 
ware County.    See  p.  89— G.  W.  H.  K.] 

A  Dr.  Pegg  also  located  in  Anderson  in  1828, 
but  still  less  is  known  of  him  than  of  his  pre- 
decessor. His  residence  in  the  village  was  of  two 
years'  duration,  when  he  was  followed  by  Dr. 
Euddell,  in  1830.  The  last-named  physician  re- 
mained seven  years  and  then  removed  to  Broad 
Eipple,  in  Marion  County,  near  the  city  of  In- 
dianapolis. In  the  meantime  Dr.  Henry  Wyman 
located  at  Anderson,  in  1831,  and  became  the 
^^ISTestor''  of  the  medical  profession  of  the  county, 
where  he  was  probably  the  most  prominent  physi- 
cian for  a  period  of  thirty  3^ears.  He  will  be 
noticed  elsewhere  in  these  sketches.  Other  early 
physicians  of  Anderson,  of  whom  no  definite  in- 
formation can  now  be  obtained,  were  Dr.  Car- 
mean,  Dr.  E.  E.  Eoe,  and  Dr.  Andrew  Eobb.  The 
first  physician  at  Chesterfield  was  a  Dr.  Henry; 
he  located  there  in  1828.  Soon  after,  we  find  the 
name  of  Dr.  K3^nett,  probably  the  Dr.  William 
Kynett  later  found  at  Fishersburg.  We  also  find 
evidence  that  Drs.  Balingall  and  Preston  of  Mid- 
dletown,  in  Henry  County,  made  regular  trips  for 
a  considerable  period,  and  ministered  to  the  sick 
of  the  infant  settlement  of  Chesterfield,  but 
neither  of  them  was  ever  located  in  Madison 
County.  Dr.  George  W.  Godwin  located  at  Ches- 
terfield in  the  early  thirties,  but  later  removed  to 
Yorktown,  in  Delaware  County.  Dr.  David  Dun- 
ham located  in  the  country  northwest  of  Chester- 
field, in  1834.     We  also  find  that  a  Dr.  Davis 


210         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

arrived  there  in  1847.  He  completes  the  list  of 
pioneer  physicians  of  the  village.  Dr.  William 
Goodell  located  at  Hamilton^  about  six  miles  west 
of  Anderson,  in  1835.  ISTo  other  facts  in  his  his- 
tory have  been  obtained. 

The  first  physician  at  Hnntsville  was  a  Dr. 
McCain^  who  was  both  ph3^sician  and  merchant. 
He  had  as  his  successors,  Drs.  John  Hunt  and 
Joseph  Weeks,  both  mentioned  later,  each  in  his 
proper  place.  Dr.  John  Home  was  the  first  to 
locate  at  New  Colnmbns.  This  event  occurred  in 
1840.  He  removed  to  Middletown  in  Henry 
County,  and  subsequently  to  Yorktown,  in  Dela- 
ware County,  where  he  died.  He  was  followed 
at  New  Columbus  by  Dr.  Hildreth,  in  1842,  and 
Dr.  W.  B.  Bair,  in  1844.  Other  early  physicians 
of  New  Columbus  w^ere  Dr.  Clark,  Dr.  Smiley 
and  Dr.  Barry. 

The  first  to  locate  at  Fishersburg  were  the 
brothers,  Drs.  James  and  John  Barrett;  this  was 
in  1840.  Later  in  the  same  year,  Dr.  William 
Kynett  located  there.  These  were  followed  by 
Dr.  Thomas  in  1848,  Drs.  John  Davis  and  John 
Williams,  in  1850,  and  a  little  later  by  Dr. 
Thomas  Carr.  Dr.  Thomas  Douglass  located  at 
Perkinsville  in  1840,  he  being  the  first  in  that 
village,  and  its  leading  physician  for  many 
years. 

In  the  same  year  Dr.  Robert  Douglass  located 
at  the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Elwood,  although 
the  town,  first  named  Quincy,  was  not  laid  out 
until  1853,  and  did  not  receive  the  name  of  El- 
wood until  1869.  About  this  time,  also,  a  Dr. 
McNear  located  at  Moonsville,  on  Big  Kilbuck 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    I \ DIANA.         211 

Creek.  The  first  physician  at  Alexandria  was 
Dr.  W.  F.  Spence^  who  came  to  the  county  in 
1839.  After  a  few  years  he  removed  to  Jones- 
boro,  in  Grant  count}',  where  he  died.  He  was 
followed  by  Dr.  Cyrus  Westerfield  and  Dr.  David 
Perry,  and  a  few  years  later,  by  Drs.  S.  B.  and 
Leonard  Harriman.  Dr.  S.  B.  Harriman  re- 
moved to  Eichmond,  Indiana,  where  he  ended  his 
career,  and  Dr.  Leonard  Harriman  died  in  Ster- 
ling, Kansas,  in  the  last  decade  of  the  nineteenth 
century. 

We  have  thus  seen  that  the  location  of  the  first 
physicians,  at  Alexandria,  Elwood,  Perkinsville. 
Fishersburg,  and  New  Columbus,  all  occurred 
about  the  same  year,  at  least,  within  twelve 
months,  of  the  3'ears  1839  and  1840.  This  was 
incident  to  the  large  increase  of  population  dur- 
ing those  years,  most  probably  induced  by  the 
work  on  the  Indiana  Central  Canal,  then  in  con- 
struction but  never  completed. 

The  first  physician  at  Frankton  was  Dr.  John 
M.  Laughlin,  but  he  did  not  arrive  until  1854. 
He  was  followed  by  Dr.  Philip  P.  Patterson,  who 
married  the  widow  of  Dr.  Laughlin,  and  succeed- 
ed also  to  his  practice.  Other  early  physicians  of 
Frankton  were  Drs.  Eeuben  Harvey,  W.  M. 
Sharp,  and  a  Dr.  Young.  There  was  no  ph3^si- 
cian  at  Summitville  until  1870,  when  Dr.  C.  Y. 
Garrell  located  there.  He  was  followed  by  Drs. 
John  Wright  and  M.  L.  Cranfield.  During  the 
decade  from  1870  to  1880,  Dr.  Wm.  J.  Morgan 
practiced  at  Oilman  on  the  border  of  Delaware 
County.     Dr.  Morgan  was  a  charter  member  of 


212         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

the  present  Madison  Connty  Medical  Society. 
Died  October  13,  1896. 

The  above  mentioned  villages  include  all,  with- 
in the  boundaries  of  Madison  County,  except 
Markleville  and  Ingalls.  The  latter  is  a  new 
town  and  has  no  medical  history.  The  former 
probably  has  a  history  but  I  have  not  been  able 
to  obtain  it.  I  find,  however,  in  some  of  the  early 
records  the  names  of  a  Dr.  Wear,  Dr.  William 
Hendricks,  Dr.  William  Swain,  and  Dr.  J.  C. 
Smith,  but  no  further  information  seems  to  be 
obtainable. 

The  names  of  other  deceased  physicians  of 
Madison  County,  of  whom  I  have  succeeded  in 
obtaining  some  definite  information,  with  brief 
sketches  of  some  of  the  more  prominent  of  them 
are  given  alphabetically  in  the  succeeding  pages. 

Prominence  is  not  invariably  based  on  esti- 
mated ability,  alone,  but  also  on  length  of  period 
of  service,  or  the  number  of  years  they  practiced 
their  profession  in  Madison  County. 

ARDERY,  OSCAR.— Anderson  (1859-1897).  S.  T. 
1898,  380,  381. 

BAIR,  W.  B.— New  Columbus  (18— -1863).  Lo- 
cated in  Madison  County  in  1844.  Practiced  eighteen 
years.  Was  an  active  member  of  the  first  Madison 
County  Medical  Society  and  was  its  treasurer  from  its 
organization  until  his  death. 

BALLENGER,  L.  P.— Anderson    (1851-1884). 

BECK,  JOHN.— Elwood    (1809-1882). 

BECK,  THOMAS  S.— Elwood  (1843-1885).  Son  of 
preceding  Dr.  Beck.  Native  of  Ohio.  Practiced  in 
Elwood  fifteen  years. 

BRANDON,  JOSEPH  FRANCIS.— Anderson  (1835- 
1888).     Practiced   several   years  at   Perkinsville.     Re- 


MEDKJAL    J/JSTOh'Y    OF    JSDIAXA.         2i;j 

moved  to  Anderson  and  engaged  in  drug  business,  but 
remained  a  member  of  the  Madison  County  Medical 
Society. 

BRUNT,    SAMUEL.— Summitville    (1849-1883). 

BURR,  CHANCEY  S.— Anderson  (1840-1905).  Born 
in  Middletown,  Indiana,  January  10,  1840.  Died  in 
Chicago,  Illinois,  June  4,  1905.  Graduated  at  Long 
Island  College  Hospital,  1865.  Served  as  surgeon  in 
the  army  last  year  of  Civil  War.  Practiced  his  pro- 
fession fifteen  years  in  Anderson,  ten  years  in  Mitchell, 
South  Dakota,  and  fourteen  years  in  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago. He  was  the  first  mayor  of  Mitchell,  South 
Dakota. 

CARTER,  D.  M.— Anderson  (1834-1893).  Prac- 
ticed a  number  of  years  in  Anderson.  Was  a  member 
of  the  first  Madison  County  Medical  Society  and  was 
its  treasurer  after  the  death  of  Dr.  W.  B.  Bair,  He 
removed  to  Modoc  in  Randolph  County,  where  he  died. 
Is  buried  at  Winchester. 

CALLOWAY,  BENIAH  T.— Elwood  (1824-1899). 
Born  in  Milton,  Indiana,  January  23,  1824.  Died  in 
Elwood,  Indiana,  November  30,  1899.  Located  in 
Alexandria  in  1849;  remained  only  one  year,  then 
removed  to  Elwood  where  he  practiced  thirty-nine 
years.     He  was  retired  ten  years  before  his  death. 

CHANNING,  WILLIAJVI  S.  —  Pendleton  (1851- 
1906).     S.  T.  1907,  489. 

COOK,  DANIEL.— Fishersburg  (1826-1902).  Dr. 
Cook  practiced  medicine  in  Madison  County  about 
forty  years,  part  of  this  time  at  Markleville. 

COOK,  JOHN  H.— Pendleton  (1802-1864).  Born  in 
Monroe  County,  Virgina,  April  27,  1802.  Died  of 
apoplexy,  at  Pendleton,  November  30,  1863.  Educated 
at  Maxwell  Academy  in  East  Tennessee.  Graduated 
in  medicine  at  University  of  Louisville.  He  was  one 
of  the  early  specialists  in  diseases  of  the  eye  and  ear. 
In  this  specialty  he  attained  such  prominence  as  to 
be  called  to  many  of  the  larger  cities  of  this  and 
other   states. 


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MEDICAL    HlHTOltY    OF    IXDIANA.         215 

He  was  a  fluent  public  speaker  and  a  ready  debater; 
entered  politics  and  was  elected  representative  in  the 
legislature  in  1836.  He  rendered  valuable  assistance 
in  securing  the  first  railway  through  the  county, 
giving  both  time  and  money.  He  also  served  one 
term  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
State  Blind  Asylum,  receiving  his  appointment  from 
Gov.  Joseph  A.  Wright. 

COOK,  THOMAS  E.  —  Perkinsville  (1819-1876). 
Born  in  South  Carolina.  Practiced  twelve  years  in 
county. 

COOK,  WARD.— Pendleton  (1808-1894).  Dr.  Ward 
Cook  was  a  younger  brother  of  Dr.  John  H.  Cook, 
above  mentioned.  Born  in  Monroe  county,  Virgina 
(now  West  Virginia),  October  9,  1808.  Died  of  pneu- 
monia, at  Pendleton,  Indiana,  December  24,  1894.  He 
attended  the  schools-  of  his  native  county,  and  spent 
two  years  at  Maxwell  Academy  in  Tennessee,  after 
which  he  taught  school  and  studied  under  private 
tutors.  He  came  to  Indiana  on  horseback,  traveling 
five  hundred  miles  in  thirteen  days.  He  had  studied 
medicine  with  his  other  studies  in  his  old  home,  and 
soon  after  his  arrival  in  Pendleton,  he  was  examined 
and  licensed  to  practice,  by  a  district  medical  society 
convened  there.  His  license  was  dated  October  20, 
1832.  From  1835  to  1849  he  practiced  in  Virginia, 
being  located  at  Red  Sulphur  Springs  in  his  native 
county.  During  this  period,  however,  he  attended 
medical  college  and  graduated  from  the  Cincinnati 
College  of  Medicine  in  1839.  He  returned  to  Pendle- 
ton March  24,  1849,  and  resided  there  until  his  death. 
He  practiced  medicine  more  than  sixty  years,  nearly 
fifty  of  which  were  in  Madison  County.  He  wrote 
many  valuable  medical  papers,  one  on  "Laceration  of 
the  Perineum  in  Parturition."     Trans.  1892,  142. 

Dr.  Cook  was  a  conscientious  and  skilled  physician 
and  a  faithful  member  of  the  local  and  state  medical 
societies,  by  which  he  was  frequently  honored.  He 
was  a  fine  type  of  the  "gentleman  of  the  old  school," 
and  a  consistent  christian,  having  been  a  member  of 


216         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    lAWIANA, 

the  M.  E.  Church  for  nearly  fifty  years.     S.  T.   1895, 
408. 

COOPER,  W.  B.— New  Columbus  (1828-1868). 
Began  to  practice  medicine  in  Madison  County,  but 
after  a  few  years  removed  to  Greenfield,  Hancock 
County,  where  he  was  eminently  successful. 

CORNELIUS,  W.  W.— Chesterfield  (1822-1892). 
Born  in  New  York  state,  October  15,  1822.  Died  at 
Daleville,  Indiana,  1892.  He  located  at  Chesterfield 
February  28,  1852,  and  was  engaged  in  practice  there 
until  the  spring  of  1864,  a  period  of  twelve  years.  He 
then  removed  to  Daleville  in  Delaware  county. 

CRAMPTON,  JESSE  PUGH.  —  Anderson  (1818- 
1866).  Born  in  Ohio.  Removed  to  Anderson  in  1852. 
He  practiced  medicine  in  Anderson  fourteen  years. 
Part  of  the  time  was  also  engaged  in  the  drug  trade. 

DEHORITY,  J.  M.— Elwood  (1815-1885).  Located 
at  Elwood  in  the  early  forties.  Entered  general  prac- 
tice of  medicine  and  became  wealthy.  For  the  last 
fifteen  years  of  his  life,  was  engaged  in  the  mercan- 
tile and  banking  business. 

DOUGLASS,  ROBERT.  —  Elwood  ( 1816  -  1863 ) . 
Practiced  medicine  in  Tipton  three  years,  New  Lan- 
caster three  years,  and  in  Elwood  about  twelve  years. 
Was  the  first  physician  at  Elwood. 

DOUGLAS,  THOMAS.  —  Perkinsville  (1818-1863). 
Was  the  first  physician  at  Perkinsville  and  practiced 
tliere  twelve  years.     Came  from  Ohio. 

DUNHAM,   DAVID.— Chesterfield    (1762-1840). 

DUNHAM,  VALENTINE.  —  Chesterfield  (1812- 
1882).  Located  two  miles  northwest  of  Chesterfield. 
Practiced  medicine  there  for  forty-five  years. 

EBERT,  WILLIAM  H.  —  Osceola  ( 1820  -  1896 ) . 
Practiced  in  Madison  County  thirty-four  years. 

FAIRFIELD,  WILLIAM  J.  — Anderson  (1853- 
1909).  Dr.  Fairfield  was  born  in  Harrison,  Ohio, 
January  20,  1853.  Was  drowned  in  the  Gunnison 
River  in  Colorado,  June  27,  1909.  Received  a  high 
school    and    partial    college    education.      He    attended 


MJ'JDJCAL     UlSTOh'Y    ()/■'    J.XJjJ.WA.  A]! 

the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  Michi- 
gan two  years  and  Bellevue  Medical  College,  New 
York,  two  years.  Graduated  at  the  latter  institution 
in  1878.  He  was  house  surgeon  of  the  Battle  Creek 
Sanitarium  several  years  and  practiced  twenty  years 
in  Anderson.  He  was  a  "chalk  talk"  lecturer  of  no 
mean  ability,  and  sometimes  employed  his  talent  in 
this  line  for  the  edification  of  medical  societies.  Re- 
moved to  Delta,  Colorado,  in  1907.  Early  in  1909  he 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  advisory  board  of 
the  University  of  Colorado. 

FISHER,  H.  G.— Fishersburg    (1836-1876). 

FORKNER,  THOMAS  B.— Florida    (1839-1869). 

FREE,  CYRENIUS.— Prosperity  (1828-1884).  Dr. 
Free  was  a  charter  member  of  Madison  County  Medi- 
cal  Society. 

FRITZ,  PERRY  L.— Alexandria  (1865-1899).  S.  T. 
1900,  323. 

FUSSELL,  BARTHOLOMEW.  —  Pendleton  (1794- 
1871).  A  native  of  Pennsylvania.  Returned  to  his 
native  state.  Is  said  to  have  weighed  about  four  hun- 
dred pounds. 

FUSSELL,   EDWIN  B.— Pendleton    (1813-1882). 

GARRETSON,  J.  M.  —  Perkinsville  (1821-1886). 
Born  in  Tennessee.     Practiced  in  county  thirty  years. 

GODWIN,  GEORGE  W.— Chesterfield  (1799-1865). 
Removed  to  Yorktown  in  Delaware  County. 

GUYSINGER,  JOHN  S.— Florida  (1816-1906).  A 
native  of  Pennsylvania.  Died  in  Pendleton,  Indiana, 
in  1906,  at  the  age  of  ninety  years.  He  practiced  his 
profession  in  Henry  and  Madison  Counties  about  sixty 
years;  the  first  third  of  this  period  was  in  Henry 
County.  He  was  three  times  married  and  reared  a 
family  of  fifteen  children.  He  retired  from  practice 
and  moved  to  Pendleton  a  feAv  years  before  his  death. 

HOCKETT,  ZIMRL— Anderson  (1830-1890).  Prac- 
ticed in  Anderson  twenty-five  years. 

HODGES,  FRED  JENNER.  —  Anderson  (1865- 
1901).  Practiced  in  Anderson  eight  or  nine  years. 
Removed  to  Ashland,  Wisconsin,  where  he  died. 


218         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   nWIANA. 

HORNE,  JOHN.— New  Columbus  (1814-1880).  Was 
the  first  physician  of  New  Columbus.  He  located 
there  in  1840.  Eemoved  to  Middletown  and  subse- 
quently to  Yorktown,  Delaware  County.  S.  T.  1881, 
240.     E.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  6,  p.  42. 

HUNT,  JOHN.— Anderson  (1817-1895).  Was  born 
in  Wayne  County,  Indiana,  and  died  at  Springdale, 
Arkansas,  July  23,  1895.  As  a  boy  he  came  with 
his  parents  to  Madison  County  as  pioneers.  They  gave 
their  name  to  the  village  where  they  settled — Hunts- 
ville.  Began  the  practice  of  medicine  there  in  1839. 
Some  years  later  he  removed  to  Anderson  and  subse- 
quently to  a  farm  in  LaFayette  township,  but  in  each 
of  these  locations  his  field  of  practice  covered  the 
larger  portion  of  the  county.  Dr.  Hunt  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  physicians  of  his  part  of  the  state 
for  more  than  thirty  years.  He  was  a  man  of  splen- 
did physique  and  unusual  intelligence.  His  advice  as 
a  physician  was  widely  sought. 

He  was  also  a  politician  of  local  reputation,  being 
for  many  years  the  leader  of  his  party  in  the  county. 
It  was  said  that  he  could'  sit  on  the  stone  steps  in 
front  of  his  office  on  the  public  square  and  dictate  the 
nominations  made  by  his  party  for  all  the  county 
offices.  He  served  as  state  senator  from  Madison  and 
Hancock  counties  in  the  legislative  session  of  1851 
to  1853.  He  was  also  treasurer  of  Madison  County, 
1860  to  1862.  Was  present  at  the  Medical  Convention 
at  Indianapolis,  June  6,   1849. 

HUNT,  JOHN  WALTER.— Anderson  (1850-1904). 
Nephew  of  preceding.  Practiced  at  Alexandria  for  a 
number  of  years,  then  removed  to  Anderson,  where  he 
enjoyed  a  large  practice  until  his  death. 

HUNT,  WILLIAM  A.— Anderson  (1822-1889).  Dr. 
William  A.  Hunt  was  a  brother  of  John  Hunt  and 
father  of  preceding.  He  was  a  small  boy  when  he 
removed  with  his  parents  from  Wayne  county,  where 
he  was  born,  to  their  new  home  at  Huntsville.  He 
first  taught  school,  then  studied  medicine  and  grad- 
uated at  the  Starling  Medical  College,  Columbus,  Ohio. 
For   many   years   he   lived   on   an    elegant    farm    four 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         21U 

miles  north  of  Anderson,  where  he  built  up  a  large 
practice.  He  removed  to  Anderson  in  1868  and,  with 
a  short  interval  in  the  drug  business,  he  continued 
iu  practice  until  a  few  days  before  his  death.  This 
was  caused  by  pneumonia,  after  a  short  illness.  Dr. 
Hunt  was  a  competent  physician,  well  informed,  not 
only  in  medical,  but  also  in  general  literature.  He 
was  a  great  reader  and  a  logical  thinker.  Was  also 
an  interested  student  of  natural  science,  especially  of 
geology.  He  was  also  a  ready  writer  and  frequently 
w^rote  for  the  local  press.  He  was  a  steadfast  friend 
of  medical  societies  and  was  president  of  the  first 
Madison  County  Medical  Society  during  the  entire 
period  of  its  existence.     S.  T.   1889,  214. 

HUSTON,  A.  S.— Anderson  (1848-1894).  Practiced 
in  Pendleton  and  Anderson  eighteen  years. 

INLOW,  JAMES  E.  —  Alexandria  ( 1841  -  1899 ) . 
Practiced  thirty  years  in  Madison  County. 

JONES,  THOMAS  N.  —  Anderson  (1823-1875). 
Practiced  twenty  years  in  Anderson,  having  previously 
practiced  at  Pendleton  and  in  Hancock  County.  He 
was  one  of  the  most  prominent  physicians  of  Ander- 
son, a  successful  practitioner  and  quite  popular  with 
the  people,  but  less  so  with  the  profession,  as  he  was 
aggressive  in  his  manner  and  rather  opposed  to  medi- 
cal societies.  He  was  a  local  politician  and  repre- 
sented his  county  in  the  legislature,  having  been 
elected  as  a  member  of  that  body  in  1872.  He  served 
as  assistant  surgeon  of  the  2d  Regiment  Indiana 
Cavalry  and  later  as  surgeon  of  the  130th  Indiana 
Infantry  during  the  Civil  War. 

JONES,  J.  M.— Lapel  (1838-1889).  Practiced  in 
Madison  county  twenty-three  years. 

JORDAN,  DEWITT.— Anderson  (1871-1901).  S.  T. 
1902,  416. 

KILGORE,  TECUMSEH.— Chesterfield  (1839-1876). 
Practiced  medicine  at  Chesterfield  about  ten  years. 
Served  in  the  Civil  War  as  assistant  surgeon  84th 
Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry  and  later  as  assitant  sur- 
geon and  also  as  surgeon  of  the  13th  Indiana  Cavalry. 


220         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

McCLENAHAN,  THOMAS  J. —Anderson  (1822- 
1856).  Born  in  Baltimore.  Came  to  Anderson  some 
time  in  the  forties.  Was  a  member  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society,  early  in  its  history. 

McMAHAN,  W.  V.— New  Columbus  (1846-1879). 
Practiced  in  the  county  ten  years,  part  of  this  at 
Summitville. 

MENEFEE,  E.  H.  — Anderson  (1838-1879).  A 
native  of  Virginia.  Came  to  Anderson  about  1860. 
He  served  as  secretary  of  the  first  Madison  County 
Medical  Society  from  1862  to  1867. 

MITCHELL,  T.   G.— Pendleton    (1827-1903). 

NUZUM,  D.  P.— Elwood  (1842-1895).  Born  in 
Ohio.  Practiced  in  Grant  County  from  1878  to  1886 
and  at  Elwood  from  1886  to  1895. 

O'CONNOR,  JOHN  Z.— Elwood  (1868-1898).  S.  T. 
1898,  387. 

PARIS,  WILLIAM.— Prosperity,  (18— -1865).  A 
native  of  Kentucky.  Came  to  Indiana  in  1825  and  was 
one  of  the  pioneers.     Was  both  physjcian  and  preacher. 

PARIS,   ABSALOM.— Hamilton    (1812-1870). 

PATTERSON,  PHILIP  P.— Frankton    (18— -1866). 

PERRY,  JOHN  W.— Alexandria  (1819-1895).  Born 
in  Logan  county,  Virginia,  November  29,  1819.  Died 
near  Alexandria,  Indiana,  June  18,  1895.  Came  with 
his  parents'  to  Madison  County  in  1826.  Located  at 
Alexandria  in  1842.  Was  in  partnership  with  Dr. 
W.  F,  Spence,  Alexandria's  first  physician.  He  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  Madison  County  fifty-three  years. 
For  forty-eight  years  he  lived  on  a  farm,  but  was  in 
active  practice.  He  was  a  member  of  both  county  and 
state   medical    societies. 

PRATT,  JOEL.— New  Columbus  (1826-1872).  A 
native  of  Massachusetts.  Came  to  Madison  County  in 
1848.     Practiced  here  over  twenty  years. 

PUGH,  JOSEPH.— Alexandria  (1820-1895).  Prac- 
ticed seventeen  years.  Served  as  treasurer  of  Madison 
County. 

PUGH,  JOSEPH,  Jr.— Alexandria    (1857-1900). 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         221 

RICHMOND,  JOHN  L.  —  Pendleton  (1785-1855). 
Dr.  Richmond  has  a  two-line  mention  in  Forkner  and 
Dyson's  History  of  Madison  County,  but  no  dates  are 
given.  This  is  the  Dr.  Richmond  who  performed  the 
operation  of  Cesarean  section  at  Newtown,  Ohio,  in 
1827.     See  sketcli  by  Dr.  Kemper,  p.  330. 

RIDER,  DANIEL  M.— New  Columbus    (1827-1907). 

RINGO,  JAMES  L.— Elwood  (1866-1901).  S.  T. 
1902,  422. 


RYAN,  TOWNSEND.— Anderson  (1813-1879).  Dr. 
Ryan  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  1813.  In  early 
manhood  he  removed  to  Hamilton,  Ohio,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  and  was  also  part 
owner  and  manager  of  a  line  of  canal  packets  run- 
ning between  Hamilton  and  Cincinnati.  He  was 
impoverished  by  the  panic  of  1837.     He  then  studied 


222         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   IlsWIAl:^A. 

medicine  and  graduated  at  the  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege, Philadelphia.  He  practiced  first  at  Lewisville 
in  Henry  county,  but  removed  to  Anderson  in  1842 
and  for  about  twenty-five  years  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  physicians  of  the  county  and  state.  He  was 
one  of  the  vice-presidents  of  the  Indiana  State  Medi- 
cal Society  at  its  organization  in  1849.  He  was 
elected  to  the  legislature  from  Madison  county  in 
1846.  He  was  engaged  actively  in  the  construction 
of  the  first  two  railroads'  which  now  pass  through  the 
county.  He  lost  his  fortune  the  second  time  in  a 
contract  to  build  a  railroad  from  Rushville  to  India- 
napolis. He  then  returned  to  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  which  he  was  eminently  successful. 

When  the  Civil  War  broke  out  he  was  the  first 
democrat  in  the  county  to  declare  in  favor  of  the  war 
policy  of  President  Abraham  Lincoln.  He  was  a  fluent 
public  speaker  and  gave  much  time  to  the  raising  of 
troops'.  He  soon  received  a  commission  as  lieutenant- 
colonel  of  the  34th  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry  and 
v/ent  into  active  service  in  1861.  He  was  promoted 
to  the  colonelcy  of  the  same  regiment  in  1862  on 
the  resignation  of  Colonel  Steele.  After  the  capture 
of  Island  No.  10,  he  resigned  on  account  of  ill  health. 
Not  being  content  out  of  service  he  soon  returned  to 
the  front  as  surgeon  of  the  54th  Indiana  Volunteer 
Infantry,  in  which  capacity  he  served  until  near  the 
close  of  the  war,  when  he  again  engaged  in  practice 
in  Anderson.  During  a  few  of  his  latter  years  he  was 
engaged  in  mercantile  business.  He  was  a  man  of 
superior  intelligence,  with  a  mind  which  seemed  in 
advance  of  his  time;  always  looking  toward  and 
planning  for  the  future. 

SAUNDERS,  JOSEPH.  —  Prosperity  (1849-1909). 
A  native  of  Ohio.  Came  to  Madison  County  in  1871. 
Graduated  at  Indiana  Medical  College,  1844.  Prac- 
ticed in  county  twenty-five  years.  President  of  Madi- 
son County  Farmers'  Insurance  from  organization. 

SIMS,  T.  S.— Elwood  (1836-1896).  Dr.  Sims  was 
a  native  of  Virgina.  Came  to  Madison  County  in 
1876.     Practiced  in  Elwood  sixteen  years. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         223 

SPANN,  BENJAMIN  F.— Anderson  (1830-1894). 
Born  in  Jefferson  County,  Indiana,  May  14,  1830. 
Practiced  at  Lebanon  before  locating  at  Anderson, 
where  he  arrived  November  19,  1860,  and  continued 
in  practice  for  thirty-four  years.  He  was  a  graduate 
of  the  Ohio  Medical  College.  He  served  a  term  as 
coroner  of  Madison  County.  By  appointment  of  the 
governor  he  was  also  a  trustee  of  two  state  institu- 
tions, the  Indiana  State  Normal  School  at  Terre 
Haute  and  the  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Indianapolis. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  county,  state  and  national 
medical  associations.  S.  T.  1894,  225.  See  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  xii,  p.  329. 

STEPHENSON,  JOSEPH.— Pendleton  (1819-1886). 
S.  T.  1886,  213. 

SUMAN,  WILLIAM.— Anderson  (1829-1898).  A 
native  of  Madison  County,  where  he  practiced  medi- 
cine thirty-eight  years;  twenty-two  in  Anderson,  and 
sixteen  in  Frankton.  Was  a  faithful  member  of  the 
medical  societies  of  county  and  state.  S.  T.  1899, 
p.  393. 

SWALLOW,  GEOPvGE  E.  —  Summitville,  (18—- 
1893). 

TEEEILL,  LUTHEE  B.  —  Anderson  (1854-1910). 
Born  in  Missouri.  Educated  in  Cincinnati.  Graduated 
at  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio  in  1880.  Practiced 
medicine  in  Cincinnati.  Eemoved  to  Anderson  in 
1895,  w^here  he  was  one  of  the  foremost  physicians 
for  fifteen  years.  He  was  a  surgeon  of  acknowledged 
ability.  Served  as  surgeon  of  the  American  Steel  and 
Wire  Company  during  the  entire  period  of  his  resi- 
dence in  Anderson. 

VAN  METEE,  ISAAC  N.— Florida  (1849-1899). 
A  native  of  Madison  county.  Graduated  from  Indiana 
University  in  1871  and  from  Indiana  Medical  College 
in  1872.  Practiced  in  Madison  County  twenty-three 
years.     S.  T.   1900,  340. 

WALKEE,  MADISON  GEEENE.— Pendleton  ( 1809- 
1875).  A  native  of  West  Virginia.  Came  to  Madi- 
son County  in  1833,  where  he  was  one  of  the  promi- 


224         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIAN' A. 

nent  physicians  for  twenty-nine  j^ears.  Retired  to  a 
farm  in  1862.  Removed  to  Carthage,  Missouri,  in 
1874. 

WEEKS,  JOSEPH.— Huntsville  (1820-1908).  Be- 
gan practice  at  Huntsville,  where  he  was  located  for 
seven  years.  Removed  to  Mechanicsburg  in  Henry 
County,  where  he  enjoyed  a  large  practice,  extending 
far  into  Madison  County,  for  more  than  half  a  century 
after  his  removal  from  it.  He  was  the  father  of 
physiomedicalism  in  his  section.  For  portrait  see 
"The  Pioneers,"  by  S.  Hardin,  p.  41. 

WESTERFIELD,  JOHN  W.  —  Anderson  (1816- 
1895).  Born  in  Preble  County,  Ohio,  June  1,  1816. 
Removed  with  his  parents  to  Fayette  County,  Indiana, 
in  1828,  and  to  Rush  County  in  1834.  Studied  medi- 
cine in  Rushville.  Removed  to  Madison  County  in 
1839.  He  practiced  medicine  in  Anderson  many  years 
and  owned  the  first  drug  store  established  in  the 
town.  Served  one  term  as  auditor  of  Madison  County. 
For  portrait  see  Forkner  and  Dyson's  History  of 
Madison  County,  p.  369. 

WICKERSHAM,  NOAH  LUDLOW.  —  Anderson 
(1827-1897).  Native  of  Ohio.  Graduated  at  Miami 
Medical  College  in  1862.  Practiced  nine  years  in 
Huntington  County  before  this  date.  Practiced  thirty- 
five  years  in  Anderson.  He  wrote  poetry  of  no  mean 
character.     S.  T.  1897,  356  and  357. 

WYMAN,  HENRY.  —  Anderson  (1806-1892).  A 
native  of  New  York.  Came  to  Madison  County  in 
1831.  In  active  practice  until  1864,  then  removed  to 
Blissfield,  Michigan,  where  he  died  in  1892.  He  is 
regarded  as  the  first  scientifically  educated  physician 
to  locate  in  Anderson.  Had  a  large  practice,  which 
extended  all  over  the  county.  As  a  diversion  he 
edited  a  local  newspaper.  Represented  the  county  in 
the  legislature  one  or  more  terms  and  was  ranked 
among  the  ablest  of  her  representatives. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         225 

Some  of  the  Early  Practitioxers  of 
Gibson  County 

Dr.  William  W.  Blair  of  Princeton,  a  personal 
friend  of  manj^  years  standing,  has  kindly  fur- 
nished me  the  following  notes.  Dr.  Blair  began 
practice  in  Princeton  in  the  year  1850  and  has 
continued  up  to  the  present  date,  and  has  person- 
ally known  nearly  all  of  the  practitioners  of  Gib- 
son County:* 

Fifty  or  sixty  years  ago  it  would  have  been 
much  easier  to  gather  information  in  regard  to 
the  early  history  of  Gibson  county,  than  at  the 
present  day,  for  at  that  time  there  were  quite  a 
number  of  the  first  settlers  of  this  county  who 
could  have  given  the  names  of  ail  who  had  been 
practitioners  in  this  vicinity  from  about  the 
year  1805. 

Among  the  pioneers  there  were  two  women 
who  were  perhaps  as  well  known  in  the  obstetric 
line  as  any  two  persons  in  the  county.  Mrs. 
John  Severn,  who  with  her  husband  settled  on 
Patoka  Eiver,  three  miles  northeast  of  Princeton 
when  this  country  was  inhabited  mostly  by 
Indians  and  wild  animals,  was  the  first  prac- 
ticing midwife.  I  have  often  talked  with  her 
daughter,  Mrs.  William  Leathers — who  was  born, 
lived  and  died  on  the  same  spot  of  ground — • 
about  her  mother's  early  experience. 

There  were  neither  bridges  nor  ferries  on 
Patoka  Eiver  and  when  "Old  Granny  Severn,^' 
as  she  was  familiarly  named,  had  a  call  to  the 
other  side  of  the  river — should  it  be  too  deep  to 


*  Dr.   Blaii-  has   practiced  in   Princeton  more   than   sixty 
years.— G.  W.  H.  K. 


226         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

"f ord'^ — she  would  mount  lier  horse  and  ^^swim" 
the  river,  no  matter  what  the  temperature  or 
condition  of  the  stream.  She  continued  her 
work  up  to  the  time  of  her  death,  which  occurred 
perhaps  between  the  3'ears  1835  and  1840. 

The  other  midwife  was  Mrs.  Rev.  John  Keli, 
who  settled  here  in  1816.  Just  how  soon  she 
began  her  work  in  that  line  I  am  unable  to  say, 
but  it  was  at  a  very  early  day,  and  she  continued 
for  a  number  of  years  after  I  came  to  Princeton : 
indeed,  till  the  feebleness  of  age  laid  her  aside. 
She  died  in  1857  or  1858. 

For  a  few  years  after  white  people  began  to 
settle  in  this  locality,  there  is  no  record  now 
accessible  of  any  physician  having  located  here, 
Yincennes,  27  miles  north,  being  the  nearest 
point  where  medical  assistance -could  be  obtained. 

Drs.  Case}^,  Charles  Fullerton  and  Eobert 
Stockwell  were  among  the  earliest  practitioners 
to  locate  in  this  county.  A  few  years  later,  Drs. 
Maddox  and  Kell  were  added  to  the  number,  but 
there  is  no  available  history  as  to  the  exact  time 
of  their  location. 

Dr.  William  Curl,  a  graduate  of  the  University 
of  Virginia,  was  the  first  medical  graduate  to 
practice  in  Gibson  count}^,  having  settled  in 
Princeton  in  1832.  He  died  in  March,  1842, 
from  pneumonia,  at  the  age  of  39  years. 

Dr.  I.  I.  Pennington  (1805-1897)  was  prac- 
ticing here  in  1850,  but  how  long  before  that 
time  I  am  unable  to  say.  Remained  until  about 
1865. 

Dr.  George  B.  Graff,  educated  in  Baltimore, 
settled  here  in  1843  and  removed  to  Omaha, 
Xeb.,  about  1862.     He  died  about  1895. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         227 

Dr.  James  C.  Patten  gradiiated  at  Evansville 
and  began  practice  in  this  county  in  1849.  He 
died  in  1903.  He  served  as  assistant  surgeon 
Fifty-Eighth  Indiana  Eegiment  during  Sher- 
man's march  to  the  sea. 

The  names  of  a  number  of  other  deceased  phy- 
sicians of  Gibson  county  have  already  been 
reported  in  the  list  heretofore  published  in  your 
records^  and  need  not  be  mentioned  here. 

Supplemental  to  Physicians  of  Jackson 
County 

Dr.  A.  G.  Osterman  of  Seymour  has  furnished 
me  some  additional  history  of  the  early  physi- 
cians of  Jackson  county  (see  p.  138). 

Among  the  earlier  physicians  was  Dr.  John 
Tipton  Shields,  born  in  1818.  He  located  at 
Xorth  Vernon,  where  he  practiced  for  a  fe'^r 
years,  then  removed  to  Jackson  county,  where 
he  practiced  until  the  time  of  his  death,  Jan.  13, 
1907.  Dr.  William  Bracken  practiced  a  short 
time  at  Eeddington  (1837).  Drs.  David  and 
William  Vanoose  (Yanuise)  practiced  at  Eock- 
ford  in  the  early  thirties.  Among  other  phvsi- 
cians  who  located  there  were  Drs.  Crippen,  Wiles, 
Eatman,  Lime,  Woodward,  Hagen,  Brandt,  Will- 
iamson, and  Hillis.  Dr.  James  H.  Green  was 
born  in  Jefferson  county  Dee.  19,  1834,  and  died 
March  17,  1901.  Dr.  Jasper  E.  Monroe  was 
born  in  Kentucky  in  1847.  He  practiced  at 
Eockford  and  Seymour  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  occurred  about  1881.  Dr.  Louis  J. 
Stage  was  born  in  Clearfield  county.  Pa.,  April 
30,  1821.     He  practiced  at  various  places  in  the 


228         MEDICAL    HIsTOBY    OF    IXDIAXA. 

county  and  died  Jan.  15,  1880,  at  Vallonia.  Dr. 
W.  C.  A.  Bain  was  born  Dec.  o,  1819.  in  Trimble 
connty.  Ky.  He  practiced  principally  at  Browns- 
town,  where  be  died  March  4,  1894.  Dr.  John 
Louis  Ford  was  born  in  Woodford  connty,  Ky., 
1818.  He  died  at  Brownstown  where  he  prac- 
ticed for  many  years.  Dr.  A.  L.  Newkirk  was 
born  in  Hamilton  connty,  Ohio,  Dec.  4,  1826, 
and  practiced  at  Seymonr,  where  he  died  in 
1885.  Dr.  Philip  Eosegan  was  bom  at  Coblenz, 
Germany,  Jnne  20,  183 T;  was  gradnated  from 
the  nniversity  at  Bonn,  1848.  Practiced  prin- 
cipally at  Dudley  town,  and  died  in  Columbus. 
Jnne  14,  1893.  Dr.  Samuel  Coryell  was  born  in 
'Rew  York  1819.  First  practiced  near  Paris 
Crossing,  then  removed  to  Crothersyille,  where 
he  died  in  1890.  Dr.  George  Chutes  was  born 
June  8,  1825.  at  Washington,  Ohio :  died  at  Free- 
town in  1882.  Dr.  Grofton  Manuel  was  born 
Aug.  12,  1834,  in  Ohio;  he  practiced  in  Free- 
town where  he  died  in  1895.  Dr.  Marshall 
Vance  Wilson  was  born  in  Lawrence  county,  Ind., 
March  9,  1839.  Located  at  Medora,  and  prac- 
ticed there  until  his  death,  Feb.  10,  1907.  Dr. 
F.  W.  Gibson  was  born  in  Xew  Hampshire.  May 
12,  1831:  died  at  Yallonia,  Feb.  12,  1870.  Dr. 
Victor  Hugo  Monroe  was  born  near  Eockford, 
Aug.  8,  1852.  and  died  at  Seymour  in  1894.  Dr. 
Samuel  Wells  practiced  at  Clearspring  in  this 
county  for  many  years.  I  could  not  get  his  his- 
tory. I  could  get  no  history  of  Dr.  A.  M. 
Thompson,  who  practiced  at  Houston  in  1835. 
nor  of  Dr.  E.  P.  Eeed.  Drs.  John  Long,  and 
Tinch  died  at  Brownstown.     Dr.  Frank  Ewinsr 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         229 

was  born  near  Xorth  Vernon  in  1851 :  practiced 
at  Vallonia,  where  he  died  in  1897.  Dr.  John 
Quincy  Orvis  was  born  in  Xew  York;  practiced 
at  Seymour  from  18TG  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1896.     (See  pac^e  138.) 


CHAPTER  XXI 


ALPHABETICAL  LIST  OF  DECEASED 
PHYSICIANS. 

I  wish  to  state  that  this  is  not  a  complete  list 
of  all  the  deceased  ph3'sicians  of  Indiana.  The 
Transactions  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Soci- 
ety are  my  principal  source  of  information.  Pref- 
erably, we  must  first  do  honor  to  this  body  of 
men  who  have  been  the  real  joromoters  of  legiti- 
mate medicine  in  our  state.  Suppose  no  society 
had.  been  organized  in  1849,  or  any  subsequent 
year,  what  would  be  our  present  condition?  The 
State  Society  necessarily  led  to  annual  meetings, 
and  the  creation  of  useful  medical  and  scientific 
papers,  and  these  were  preserved  in  our  Transac- 
tions. The  State  Society  encouraged  the  several 
medical  journals  that  have  existed  in  our  state, 
and  that  have  been  so  helpful  to  the  profession. 
Our  Transactions,  medical  journals,  medical  col- 
leges and  the  valuable  laws  on  our  statute  books, 
we  may  say  without  undue  praise,  have  been 
brought  about  through  the  self-sacrifice  and  en- 
ergy of  the  men  whose  names  are  found  upon  the 
records  of  our  State  Society  from  1849  to  1909. 

I  have  sought  for  names  elsewhere  in  cases 
where  they  deserved  recognition.  In  some  in- 
stances ancient  tombstones  have  supplied  dates. 
After  all  my  pains,  and  the  help  of  good  friends, 
some  names  will  be  overlooked,  and  I  shall  sin- 
cerely regret  such  omissions.     I  have  sent  letters 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         231 

to  every  county  society  in  the  state  asking  for 
names  of  deceased  physicians  who  lived  in  their 
midst.  Many  have  responded;  some  have  not,  so 
I  must  not  bear  all  the  blame. 

Space  will  not  allow  lengthy  notice  of  individ- 
uals, and  some  of  their  friends  may  be  disap- 
pointed because  I  have  failed  to  write  more 
concerning  their  personal  history,  but  I  have 
endeavored  to  do  justice  to  all.  As  the  names  of 
my  friends  of  the  past  have  come  up  before  me 
my  eyes  have  moistened  and  I  have  felt  loath  to 
cease  saying  kind  words  about  them. 

I  may  say  that  I  have  aimed  to  devote  more 
space  to  the  earlier  physicians  of  the  state,  rather 
than  to  those  of  a  later  generation.  Also  to  honor 
those  who  have  rendered  more  marked  service  to 
medicine  and  surgery.  The  aim  is  to  record  the 
correct  name,  residence,  date  of  birth,  and  date  of 
death.  Often  this  supplies  all  the  information 
desired,  but  the  reader  can,  if  he  chooses,  find  ref- 
erence to  the  particular  volume  of  Transactions, 
where  fuller  details  can  be  secured. 

I  have  aimed  to  give  title  and  reference  to  pa- 
pers contributed  by  deceased  members  and  pub- 
lished in  the  Transactions,  so  that  the  sketches  are 
helpful  as  an  index. 

I  desire  to  call  especial  attention  to  the  obit- 
uary notices  recorded  in  the  Transactions.  Gen- 
erally, they  have  been  written  by  personal  friends 
who  knew  the  deceased,  and  recorded  interesting 
facts  which  are  worthy  of  perusal.  In  many 
instances  they  contain  valuable  historical  infor- 
mation. 


232         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

I  must  record  a  tribute  of  praise  to  the  memo- 
ries of  Drs.  J.  E.  Beck  and  J.  F.  Hibberd,  who 
inaugurated  the  Section  of  Necrology  in  1879. 
Dr.  Beck  was  chairman  of  this  committee  one 
year,  1880,  when  his  name  was  added  to  the  death 
list  of  1881,  and  Dr.  Hibberd  succeeded  him  as 
chairman  and  continued  in  this  capacity  until 
1899,  when  he  also  went  on  that  unreturning 
visit,  leaving  the  work  for  others  to  assume.  In 
1900  Dr.  G.  W.  H.  Kemper  was  appointed  to  the 
chairmanship  and  has  continued  to  the  present 
time.  And  so,  for  thirty  years  a  pathetic  and 
historical  register  of  our  deceased  professional 
brethren  was  an  annual  source  of  surprise  and 
sorrow. 

Finally,  I  regret  that  some  physicians  have 
been  so  sensitive  over  their  names  in  medical 
journals  and  medical  biographies.  In  many 
instances  this  over-sensitiveness  has  hindered  my 
work  when  I  have  searched  for  information  con- 
cerning individuals.  A  physician's  good  name  and 
example  ought  to  be  an  incentive  to  younger  mem- 
bers of  the  profession.  If  he  has  wrought  well, 
his  deeds  and  works  are  the  common  heritage  of 
the  profession. 

I  wish  Dr.  Stone  had  compiled  a  book  on  Indi- 
ana physicians  that  would  have  comprised  all  the 
medical  men  of  the  state,  then  my  task  would 
have  been  needless  or  easier. 

"Along  the  village  streets,  where  maples  lean 
Together  like  old  friends  about  the  way, 
A  faithful  pair  oft  and  anon  were  seen — 

He  and  his  nag,  both  growing  old  and  gray; 
What  secrets  lurked  within  that  old  soul's  breast: 
Of  mother-love,  of  throb  of  pains  and  ills. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         233 

All  safely  kept  beneath  that  buttoned  vest, 

Keceptacle  of  powders  and  of  pills. 
Thrice  happy  he  when  some  fond  mother's  eyes 

Grew  moist  with  love  unspeakable  to  find 
Snugged  to  her  breast  her  babe  whose  paradise 

Within  her  soul  and  bosom  were  entwined. 
How  oft  he  held  the  wrist  to  mark  the  slow 

Pulsations  of  the  feebly-fluttering  heart, 
While  his  kind  words,  soft  murmuring  and  low. 

Essayed  to  calm  the  mourner's  pain  and  smart. 
He  was  to  all  a  father,  brother,  friend ; 

Their  joys  were  his,  their  sorrows  were  his  own. 
He  sleeps  in  peace  where  yonder  willows  bend 

Above  the  violets  that  kiss  the  stone." 

— Horace  S.  Keller,  in  New  York  Sun. 

Abbreviations:  "S.  T.,"  Transactions  State  Medical 
Society;  "I.  M.  J.,"  Indiana  Medical  Journal;  "J,  I.  S. 
M.  A.,"  Journal  Indiana  State  Medical  Association;" 
"Robson,"  The  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  the  United 
States,  1878,  Charles  Robson;  "Stone,"  Biography  of 
Eminent  American  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  1894,  R. 
French  Stone,  M.D.,  Indianapolis;  "R.  M.  of  Ind.," 
Representative  Men  of  Indiana:  American  Biograph- 
ical History  of  Eminent  and  Self-Made  Men  of  the 
State  of  Indiana,  Cincinnati,  1880. 


ABORN,  ORIN— Marshfield  (1826-1885)  S.  T.  1886, 
202.  Was  assistant  surgeon  of  the  40th  Reg.  Ind. 
Vols. 

ADAMS,  JAMES  M.— Marion  (1820-1894)  S.  T. 
1895,  404. 

ADAMS,  JAMES  Mc— Frankfort  (1839-1888)  S.  T. 
1889,  213.  Contributed  "Report  on  the  prevailing 
diseases  of  the  Seventh  Congressional  District."  Trans. 
1871,  83,  and  1872,  111. 

ADAMS,  JAMES  R.— Petersburg  (1824-1903)  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xxii,  335.  Was  assistant  surgeon  of  the  58th 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  and  later  surgeon  of  the  15th  Reg.  Ind. 
Vols,  in  the  Civil  War. 


234         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

ADAMS,  MARCELLUS  M.— Greenfield  (1835-1909) 
Jour.  Ind.  State  Med.  Assoc,  Vol.  ii,  404.  Was  assist- 
ant surgeon  of  the  116tli  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

ADYLOTTE,  WILLIAM  R.— Badger  (1834-1885) 
S.  T.  1885,  220. 

AIKMAN,  EDGAR  A.— Clinton  (1855-1906)  S.  T. 
1907,  492. 

ALEXANDER,  STEPHEN  J.— New  Albany  (1812- 
1891)   S.  T.  1891,  284. 

ALEXANDER,  WILBUR.— Frankfort  (1869-1906) 
S.  T.  1907,  478. 

ALLEN  SETH.— Sliideler  (1845-1898)  S.  T.  1898, 
386. 

AMICK,  CHRISTOPHER  C— Hayden  (1849-1901) 
S.  T.  1901,  480. 

ANDERSON,  OLIVER  F.— Wheeling  (1839-1883) 
S.  T.  1884,  210. 

ANDREW,  WILLIAM  P.— Laporte  (1809-1906) 
I.  M.  J.,Vol.  XXV.,  80. 

ANDREWS,  DANIEL  H.— Muncie    (1811-1856). 

ANTHONY,  EMANUEL.— Indianapolis  ( 1840- 
1903).  Born  in  Loudon  County,  Virginia,  May  27, 
1840.  He  served  in  the  141st  Reg.  Ohio  Vols.  In  1879 
he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  surgery  in  the  Physio- 
Medical  College  of  Indiana,  which  he  filled  until  1898. 
He  was  then  appointed  to  the  chair  of  principles  and 
practice  of  medicine  in  the  same  institution,  which  he 
filled  until  the  time  of  his  death.     W.  A.  Spurgeon. 

ANTHONY— SAMUEL    P.— Muncie     ( 1792-1876 ) . 

ARDERY,  JOSEPH  C— Decatur  County  (1825- 
1854).  Was  born  in  Decatur  County,  Jan.  28,  1825, 
and  died  at  Hartsville,  Nov.  28,  1854.  He  was  present 
at  the  formation  of  the  State  Medical  Society,  1849. 

ARMINGTON,  WILLIAM.— Greensburg  ( 1808- 
1862). 

ARMITAGE,  DAVID  R.— Delaware  County  (1831- 
1891)   S.  T.  1892,  280. 

ARMSTRONG,  LEWIS  P.— Newtown  (1836-1905) 
S.  T.  1905,  439. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         235 

ARMSTRONG,    WESLEY.— Hillsboro     (1832-1884) 
S.  T.  1884,  219. 

ARMSTRONG,  WILLIAM  G.— Lafontaine  (1822- 
1881)   S.  T.  1881,  243. 

ARNOLD,  JOHN.— Rushville  (1815-1902).  For 
biography  see  Am.  Biog.  Hist,  of  eminent  and  self- 
made  men  of  the  State  of  Indiana,  1880,  Dist.  6,  1. 

ARTHUR,  CHRISTOPHER  C— Portland  (1832- 
1898)  S.  T.  1899,  395.  Born  in  Highland  county,  Ohio, 
Sept.  15,  1832,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Portland,  Oct. 
16,  1898.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  Starling  Medical 
College,  and  soon  after  graduation  located  in  Camden, 
Jay  county.  Dr.  Arthur  was  a  natural  mechanic  and 
always  resourceful  in  surgery.  The  author  has  seen 
a  remarkably  excellent  trephine  which  Dr.  Arthur 
constructed  out  of  an  old  hand  saw,  and  used  in  an 
early  day  to  good  purposes  in  many  cases.  In  18G2 
he  raised  a  company  for  the  Seventy-fifth  Indiana  Vol- 
untpprs  and  was  elected  Captain.  A  few  days  later 
he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  regiment.  He  was 
captured  while  in  charge  of  a  hospital  soon  after  the 
battle  of  Chickamauga,  and  sent  to  Libby  prison  where 
he  was  in  confinement  for  six  months.  Upon  his  re- 
turn home  he  was  twice  elected  County  Auditor  of 
Jay  county.  After  the  expiration  of  his  terms  of  office 
he  resumed  practice  in  Portland.  In  the  State  Trans- 
actions for  1893,  page  188,  may  be  found  an  exceeding 
valuable  paper  contributed  by  Dr.  Arthur,  entitled 
"Fractures  of  the  Skull  with  Injuries  of  the  Brain." 
In  this  paper  some  sixteen  cases  are  described  and  all 
are  of  great  interest  and  show  the  skill  of  no  ordinary 
surgeon. 

ARWINE,  JOHN  S.— Columbus  (1824-1905),  S.  T. 
1906,  491. 

ATHON,  JAMES  S.— Indianapolis  (1811-1875). 
Was  born  in  Loudoun  County,  Virginia,  April  1,  1811, 
and  died  at  Indianapolis.  Oct.  25,  1875,  of  cerebral 
hemorrhage.  Dr.  Athon  was  surgeon  of  the  Third 
Indiana  Volunteer  Regiment  in  the  Mexican  War.  He 
was  present  at  the  State  Medical  convention  at  In- 
dianapolis,   in    June,     1849,    and    was    accredited    to 


236         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Charlestown.  He  was  numbered  with  the  pioneer  physi- 
cians of  Indiana,  having  practiced  for  about  forty 
years.  From  Nov.  1,  1852,  to  Oct.  3,  1861,  he  was 
superintendent  of  the  Central  Indiana  Hospital  for 
Insane.  He  was  elected  and  served  as  Secretary  of 
State  from  1863  to  1865.  See  article  on  "Final  Illness 
of  Dr.  James  S.  Anthon.  Post-mortem  Examination, 
and  Remarks  upon  the  Preventive  Treatment  of  Apo- 
plexy," by  Dr.  Isaac  C.  Walker,  Trans.  1876,  p.  122. 

ATKINS,  JOSEPH.— Lafayette  (1812-1904),  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xxii,  368. 

AUSTIN,  CHARLES  B.— Veedersburg  (1825-1890), 
S.  T.  1890,  163. 

AUSTIN,  STEPHEN  S.— Etna  (1821-1884),  S.  T. 
1885,  216. 

AVERDICK,  HENRY  G.— Oldenburg  (1826-1892), 
S.  T.  1893,  254.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  144.  Was  sur- 
geon of  Thirty-fifth  Regiment  Indiana  Infantry. 

AYRES,  HENRY  P.— Ft.  Wayne  (1813-1887),  S.  T. 
1888,  208.  Dr.  Ayres  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey. 
Graduated  from  the  University  of  New  York  in  1842, 
and  located  in  Ft.  Wayne  the  same  year,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death.  Was  elected  president  of  the 
State  Society  in  1871.  He  contributed  the  following 
papers  to  the  Transactions:  "Report  on  Obstetrics," 
— 1859,  30;  "Epidemic  Dysentery  in  Allen  County  in 
1845,  1854,  1856,  1864,"— 1867,  127;  "Indiana's  Idiotic 
Children,"— 1868,  106;  "Self  Pollution  in  Children," 
—1871,  161;   "President's  Address,"— 1872,  1. 

AYRES,  STEPHEN  D.— Marion  (1811-1898),  S.  T. 
1899,  390. 

BAKER,  JOSEPH  H.— Lafayette  (1854-1893),  S.  T. 
1894,  223.     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xii,  293. 

BAKER,  MOSES.— Lafayette  (1823-1888).  Case  of 
Cesarean  section,  operation  Nov.  6,  1880.  Mother  and 
child  saved.  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  ii,  1.  "Post-partum  Hemor- 
rhage," S.  T.  1885,  136. 

BAKER,  PHILIP  S.— Indianapolis  (1851-1901),  S. 
T.  1902,  408.  For  ten  years  prior  to  his  death  he  held 
the  professorship  of  chemistry  in  the  Medical  College 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         237 

of  Indiana,  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading 
chemists  of  the  country.     I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xx,  154. 

BAKER,  THOMAS  H.  B.— Pekin  (1838-1905).  S. 
T.  1905,  440. 

BALINGALL,  GEORGE  H.— Middletown  (1794- 
1865).  Born  in  Scotland,  1794.  Educated  at  Edin- 
burg.  Came  to  America  in  1815.  Practiced  first  in 
Virginia.  Removed  to  Middletown,  Ind.,  in  early 
thirties;  died  there  in  1865,  aged  71  years.  Acquired 
a  competence  and  retired  some  years  before  his  death. 

BALLARD,  CHESTER  G.— Perryville  (1792-1858). 
Dr.  Ballard  was  born  in  Wendell,  Mass.,  Jan.  14,  1792, 
and  died  at  Perryville,  June  21,  1858.  He  formerly 
practiced  at  Waveland,  and  was  present  at  the  forma- 
tion of  the  State  Society. 

BALLARD,  NATHAN  H.— Richmond  (1849-1898). 
S.  T.  1899,  401. 

BALLARD,  S.  H.— Haubstadt  (1856-1885).  S.  T. 
1885,  218. 

BALLOU,  A.  B.— Burnetts ville  (1831-1893).  S.  T. 
1894,  224. 

BARKER,  ANDREW  J.— Tipton  (1840-1883).  S. 
T.  1883,  273. 

BARNS,  WILLIAM  C— Marion  (1850-1905).  S.  T. 
1906,  495. 

BARTHOLOMEW,  BRADLEY.  —  Danville  ( 1804- 
1902).     S.  T.  1903,  332. 

BARTON,  GAYLORD  G.— Washington  (1809-1884). 
S.  T.  1884,  217. 

BATES,  AARON  J.— Kokomo(  1843-1906).  S.  T. 
1906,  497. 

BAUER,  MODESTUS.— Vincennes  (1830-1884).  S. 
T.  1884,  223. 

BEARD,  FERDINAND  W.— Vincennes  (1835-1891) 
S.  T.  1891,  283.  Born  in  Harrison  county,  Indiana, 
Feb.  7,  1835,  and  died  at  Vincennes,  Feb.  11,  1891.  He 
was  a  practitioner  of  medicine  for  thirty-four  years. 
He  was  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Knox 
County  Medical  Society,  and  was  especially  active  in 


238         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

various  professional  societies.  He'  was  a  regular  at- 
tendant and  active  worker  in  the  State  Society,  and 
was  Vice  President  in  1875.  He  deserves  mention  for 
his  loyalty  to  his  county  and  state  societies. 

BECK,  ELIAS  W.  H.— Delphi  (1822-1888).  S.  T. 
1889,  211.  Born  in  Mifflin  county,  Pennsylvania,  Jan. 
18,  1822;  graduated  at  University  of  New  York  in 
March,  1848.  Previous  to  graduation  he  served  as 
assistant  surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Army  during  the  Mex- 
ican war,  being  attached  to  the  general  hospital  at 
Matamoras.  In  the  spring  of  1848  he  began  to  prac- 
tice at  Delphi.  In  1850  he  crossed  the  plains  to 
California  where  he  practiced  for  four  months.  In 
1851  he  returned  to  Delphi  where  he  continued  to 
practice  until  his  death,  which  occurred  Oct.  6,  1888. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  was  for  one  year  surgeon  of 
the  Third  Indiana  Cavalry  Regiment,  six  months  a 
brigade  surgeon,  and  for  eighteen  months  surgeon  of 
a  division.  On  the  night  of  July  3,  1863,  while  on 
duty  at  his  hospital  at  the  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Gettysburg  he  discovered  the  beginning  of  the  retreat 
of  the  Confederates,  and  promptly  reported  the  fact  to 
General  Hancock.  Dr.  Beck  is  accredited  with  having 
made  a  resection  of  the  shoulder  joint,  in  which  four 
inches  of  humerus  was  removed,  the  patient  recovering 
with  a  fairly  useful  arm.  (Med.  and  Surg.  Hist,  of 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  Part  2,  Surg.  Vol.,  550.) 

BECK,  JOSEPH  R.— Ft.  Wayne  (1843-1880).  S. 
T.  1881,  243.  Born  at  Lancaster,  Ohio,  March  19, 
1843;  died  at  Ft.  Wayne,  Dec.  30,  1880.  He  practiced 
at  Toledo  and  Lancaster,  Ohio,  and  since  1871  at  Ft. 
Wayne.  He  was  professor  of  gynecology  and  genito- 
urinary diseases  in  the  Ft.  Wayne  college  of  medi- 
cine at  the  time  of  his  death.  It  was  upon  the  motion 
of  Dr.  Beck  at  the  May  meeting  of  the  State  Society 
in  1879  that  a  committee  of  necrology  was  created.  He 
was  appointed  as  Chairman  and  served  the  following 
year,  at  which  time  his  death  occurred,  and  Dr.  J.  F. 
Hibberd  succeeded  as  Chairman.  He  contributed  a 
number  of  articles  to  periodicals,  and  in  transactions 
of  1875,  95,  a  paper  on  Iodide  of  Potassium,  and  in 
1880,  100,  an  article  on  "Tumors  of  the  Anterior  Walls 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         239 

of  Vagina.'"  He  was  also  the  author  of  a  paper  pub- 
lished in  the  Am.  Jour,  of  Obs.  in  1874,  entitled  "How 
do  the  Spermatozoa  Enter  the  Uterus?"  See  also 
Robson,  p.  522. 

BECKES,  LYMAN  M.— Vincennes  (1862-1904). 
S.  T.  1905,  441. 

BEER,  HENRY  M.— Valparaiso  (1838-1903).  Was 
a  native  of  Ohio.  In  June,  1861,  enlisted  in  the 
Twenty-third  Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteers,  and  soon  aft- 
erward was  made  hospital  steward  of  same  regiment. 
Later  he  served  as  a  contract  surgeon  at  Cumberland, 
Md.  In  1868  he  located  in  Valparaiso,  where  he  spent 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  Dr.  Beer  was  a  skillful 
physician  and  surgeon,  and  was  loved  by  his  fellow- 
men. 

BERRY,  GEORGE.— Brookville  (1811-1892).  S.  T. 
1892,  292.  Dr.  Berry  was  a  member  of  the  State  Con- 
stitutional Convention,  and  represented  Franklin 
county  in  the  State  Senate  and  House  of  Representa- 
tives, and  filled  several  county  offices.  During  the 
Mexican  War  he  was  surgeon  of  the  Sixteenth  Regi- 
ment U.  S.  Infantry.  Dr.  Berry  stood  high  as  a  local 
surgeon. 

BERRYMAN,  JAMES  A.— Darlington  (1836-1896). 
S.  T.  .1897,  345. 

BEVER,  JOHN  C— Vincennes  (1819-1903).  S.  T. 
1903,  333. 

BEVERLY,  JOHN  E.— Winchester  (1816-1888).  S. 
T.  1889,  207. 

BIGELOW,  JAMES  K.— Indianapolis  (1833-1886). 
S.  T.  1886,  218.  Born  at  Bellebrook,  Ohio,  Oct.  17, 
1833;  died  at  Indianapolis,  June  1,  1886.  When  the 
Governor  called  for  three  months'  volunteers  in  1861, 
he  volunteered  as  a  private  and  at  the  end  of  this 
term  re-enlisted,  was  made  hospital  steward  Eighth 
Indiana  Volunteers;  w-as  commissioned  as  an  assistant 
surgeon  October,  1862,  and  promoted  to  surgeon  July, 
1863. 

BLACK,  NORMAN  W.— Selma  (1827-1880).  S.  T. 
1881,  235. 


240         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

BLAIE,  FRANKLIN.— Princeton  (1859-1907).  S. 
T.  1907,  482. 

BLOUNT,  CYRUS  N.— Kokomo  (1832-1887).  S.  T. 
1888,  209.  Dr.  Blount  contributed  two  articles  to  the 
State  Society,  "Diabetes  Mellitus,"  S.  T.  1874,  91;  and 
"Cerebral  Softening,  witli  Report  of  a  Case,"  1887,  116. 

BLUNT,  MARCUS  S.— Vernon  (1826-1881).  S.  T. 
1882,  198. 

BOBBS,  JOHN  S.— Indianapolis  (1809-1870).  Was 
born  at  Greenvillage,  Pennsylvania,  Dec.  28,  1809,  and 
died  at  Indianapolis,  May  1,  1870.  Dr.  Bobbs  located 
at  Indianapolis  in  1835,  but  took  a  course  of  lectures 
in  Jefferson  Medical  College  the  same  year,  graduating 
in  1836.  When  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana  was 
organized,  he  was  elected  professor  of  surgery,  and 
later  dean  of  the  faculty.  Dr.  P.  H.  Jameson  says  that 
the  latter  part  of  his  life  was  devoted  mainly  to  sur- 
gery, and  that  "he  was  original  and  bold  almost  to 
lecklessness."  Dr.  Bobbs  was  one  of  the  original  com- 
missioners who  organized  the  Indiana  Hospital  for 
the  Insane.  He  was  a  state  senator  for  one  term. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  was  brigade  surgeon  on  the 
staff  of  Gen.  T.  A.  Morris.  At  his  death  he  gave 
$2,000  for  a  dispensary,  and  $5,000  for  a  free  medical 
library.  He  was  not  an  extensive  contributor  to  med- 
ical or  surgical  literature.  In  The  Transactions  of 
the  State  Medical  Society  for  1868,  1,  may  be  found 
Dr.  Bobbs'  address  as  President  of  the  society.  It  is 
a  valuable  paper,  and  is  entitled,  "The  Origin,  Objects 
and  Progress  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society." 
In  that  paper  he  makes  a  special  plea  for  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  medical  journal,  to  be  the  organ  of  the 
profession  in  the  state.  The  crowning  glory  of  Dr. 
Bobbs'  professional  life  is  his  well  earned  reputation 
as  the  "Founder  of  Cholecystotomy,"  inasmuch  as  he 
was  the  first  to  open  the  gall-bladder.  The  operation 
was  performed  June  15,  1867,  the  patient,  a  woman 
thirty  years  of  age,  made  a  thorough  recovery,  and  is 
living  at  the  present  time.  The  original  paper,  which 
has  elicited  so  much  interest  of  late  years,  was  entitled 
"Case  of  Lithotomy  of  the  Gall-Bladder,"  an.d  was  pub- 
lished in  the  State  Transactions,  1868,  68.  Republished 


242         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

in  full  in  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxiv,  26.  The  reader  who  may 
desire  to  consult  the  literature  on  the  subject  of  Dr. 
Bobbs  and  the  first  case  of  cholecystotomy,  can  do  so 
by  the  following  additional  references:  Indiana  Med- 
ical Journal,  Vol.  xvii,  432;  Vol.  xviii,  177,  277;  Vol. 
xxi,  193,  and  a  most  elaborate  report  on  the  case  and 
patient  by  Dr.  A.  W.  Brayton,  in  the  same  Journal, 
Vol.  xxiv,  21,  55,  with  a  picture  of  the  patient,  p.  38. 
Also,  on  p.  33,  same  journal,  a  "Memorial  of  Dr. 
Bobbs,"  by  Dr.  P.  H.  Jameson.  His  last  contribution 
to  surgery  was  written  a  few  days  before  his  death: 
"Two  Cases  of  Nsevi  in  Infants,  Treated  by  Ligation 
and  Excision;  and  Excision  Alone."  Ind.  Jour.  Med., 
Vol.  1,  33  (May,  1870).  See  biographical  sketches, 
S.  T.  1871,  p.  211,  by  Dr.  G.  W.  Mears,  Ind.  Jour,  of 
Med.,  Vol  i,  p.  47,  by  Dr.  Thad  M.  Stevens,  Dr.  M. 
Tinker,  Johns  flopkins  Bulletin,  August,  1901,  and 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  XX,  p.   193. 

BOND,  RICHARD  C— Aurora  (1822-1904).  S.  T. 
1905,  442. 

BOOR,  WALTER  A.— New  Castle  (1849-1897).  S. 
T.  1898,  375. 

BOOR,  WILLIA^I  F.— New  Castle  (1819-1907). 
Dr.  Boor  first  located  in  Henry  county  in  1846,  having 
removed  from  Ohio.  With  the  exception  of  a  few 
years'  residence  later  in  Ohio,  he  continued  to  reside 
in  Henry  county  until  his  death,  which  occurred  July 
17,  1907.  He  was  surgeon  of  the  Fourth  Indiana  Cav- 
alry regiment  during  the  Civil  War.  It  was  his  boast 
that  in  his  long  span  of  life,  he  never  used  intoxicants 
or  tobacco.     Robson,  p.  617. 

BOUXELL,  MATHEW  H.— Lebanon  (1822-1896). 
S.  T.  1896,  271.  Was  surgeon  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Sixteenth  Regiment  Indiana  Infantrj^  See  R.  M.  of 
Ind.,  Dist.  6,  p.  10. 

BOWERS,  ANDREW  J.— Moore's  Hill  (1827-1902). 
S.  T.  1902,  409. 

BOWLBY,  JOSEPH.— Shelbyville  (1854-1906).  S. 
T.  1907,  490. 


WILLIAM  F.  BOOR 


244         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIA^'A. 

BOYD,  SAIMUEL  S.— Dublin  (1820-1888).  S.  T. 
1888,  213.  Born  in  Wayne  county,  Indiana,  March  31, 
1820,  and  died  April  16,  1888.  Dr.  Boyd  graduated 
at  the  Ohio  Medical  College  in  1848,  and  soon  after 
began  practice  at  Jacksonburg,  and  later  removed  to 
Centerville.  In  1862  he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the 
Eighty-fourth  Indiana  Volunteers,  and  remained  with 
that  regiment  until  near  the  close  of  the  war.  He 
then  located  at  Dublin,  where  he  continued  to  prac- 
tice medicine  until  the  date  of  his  death.  Dr.  Boyd 
was  a  typical  family  physician.  In  1876  he  was  elected 
President  of  the  State  Medical  Society.  Besides  Presi- 
dent's address,  1877,  he  has  contributed  the  following 
papers  to  the  transactions  of  the  state  society:  "Vera- 
trum  Viride,"  Trans.  1874,  31;  "Tobacco,"  1876,  23, 
and  "Medical  Legislation,"  1884,  17. 

BRACKEN,  WILLIAJNI.— Greensburg  (1817-1907). 
Dr.  Bracken  was  born  in  Dearborn  County,  May  26, 
1817,  and  died  at  Greensburg,  Aug.  13,  1907.  He  was 
licensed  to  practice  medicine  by  the  old  Fifth  District 
Medical  Society  at  its  session  in  Connersville,  on 
Nov.  2,  1836.  He  commenced  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  Jackson  County,  Jan.  1,  1837,  where  he  remained 
about  two  years,  after  which  he  removed  to  Richland, 
Rush  County.  In  1842  he  moved  to  Milroy,  in  same 
county,  where  he  continued  to  practice  until  the  spring 
of  1862,  when  he  removed  to  Greensburg,  and  con- 
tinued  practice   until   a    few   years   before   his    death. 

He  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  H.  G.  Sexton,  at  Rush- 
ville,  Indiana.  He  had  no  educational  advantages, 
except  five  months  in  school,  schools  of  an  insufficient 
order  even  for  that  day.  However,  he  continued  a  dili- 
gent student  throughout  his  entire  life.  He  was  elected 
a  delegate  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  In- 
diana in  1850,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  the 
last  surviving  member. — Leonidas  L.  Bracken,  grand- 
son, Muncie. 

BRADBURY,  ALLISON  B.— Muncie  (1842-1892). 
S.  T.  1892,  289. 


SAMUEL  S.  BOYD 


246         MEDICAL    BISTORT    OF    nWIANA. 

BRADY,  C.  C— Lincolnville  (1852-1895).  S.  T. 
1896,  255. 

BRANDON,  JOSEPH  F.— Anderson  (1835-1888). 
S.  T.  1888,  210. 

BRAY,  MADISON  J.— Evansville  (1811-1900).  Dr. 
Bray  was  born  at  Turner,  Maine,  1811,  and  graduated 
at  Bowdoin  Medical  College  in  1835,  and  located  the 
same  year  at  Evansville.  He  filled  the  chair  of  surgery 
in  Evansville  Medical  College  for  about  twelve  years; 
was  surgeon  at  the  marine  hospital,  Evansville,  for 
four  years;  surgeon  in  the  United  States  army  three 
years,  and  later  at  St.  Marie's  Hospital.  In  1855  he 
was  President  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society. 
He  contributed  several  papers  on  cancer,  lithotomy, 
and  tumors.  In  Vol.  i,  4th  Ed.  Gross'  Surg.,  p.  217, 
mention  is  made  of  a  fatty  tumor  which  Dr.  Bray  re- 
moved, weighing  nearly  forty  pounds.  He  died  Aug. 
22,  1900,  at  the  age  of  89,  having  lived  in  Evansville 
for  65  years.  Was  surgeon  of  the  Sixtieth  Regiment 
Indiana  Infantry.     Ob.  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  122. 

BRIDWELL,  LAFAYETTE.—  Owensburg  ( 1844- 
1903).     S.  T.  1903,  334. 

BRITTAIN,  STEPHEN  H.— Loogootee  (1836-1904). 
S.  T.,  1905,  443. 

BROOKS,  WILLIAIM  H.— Ft.  Wayne  (1813-1894). 
S.  T.  1895,  405. 

BROWER,  JEREMIAH  H.— Lawrenceburg  (1798- 
1866).  Ob.  Cin.  Jour.  Med.,  1866,  i,  493-495.  Memoir 
by  Prof.  C.  G.  Comegys.  Author  of  article  on  "Camp 
Diarrhea."  Trans.  1863,  45.  Was  President  of  the 
State  Society  in  1853.  Contributed  to  the  State 
Medical  Society  the  following  articles:  "President's 
Address,"  Trans.  1853,  14;  "Report  of  the  Committee 
on  Vital  Statistics,"  1853,  74;  1855,  11;  1856,  56;  and 
1860,  40;  "Camp  Diarrhea,"  1863,  45,  and  "Atresia 
Vagina   from  Imperforate  Hymen,"   1865,   21. 

BROWN,  CLAY.— Indianapolis  (1826-1862).  Was 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  Eleventh  Regiment  Indiana 
Volunteers.  Died  on  board  steamer  John  Roe,  at 
Crump's  Landing,   Tennessee   River,   of   typhoid  pneu- 


-MADISOX  J.  BRAY 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         247 

monia,  March   11,   18G2,  aged  thirty-six  years.     S.  T. 
1862,  49. 

BROWN,    SAMUEL    M.— New    Bethel    (1822-1904). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxiii,  34. 

BROTHERS,  GUY  M.— New  Paris    (1875-1906).   S. 
T.  1907,  480. 

BRUNT,  SAMUEL  F.— Summitville   (1849-1883).  S. 
T.  1884,  207. 

BRYAN,    T.    N.— Indianapolis    (1833-1902).      S.    T. 
1902,  407. 

BULLARD,  TALBOTT.— Indianapolis  (1815-1863). 
Dr.  Bullard  was  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  and  a  de- 
scendant of  Puritanic  stock.  He  came  to  Indianapolis 
about  the  year  1844,  where  he  formed  a  partnership 
with  Dr.  Mears.  He  was  a  physician,  with  no  desire 
to  invade  the  domain  of  surgery.  It  was  not  his  prac- 
tice first  to  use  emetics  or  cathartics,  or  both,  to  pre- 
pare the  system  for  the  use  of  quinin,  as  was  the 
custom  of  many  in  his  day.  He  declared  that  delays 
often  allowed  the  patient  to  die,  so  he  gave  that 
remedy  in  full  doses  from  the  start,  whether  the  pa- 
tient had  fever  or  no  fever.  In  1850,  Dr.  Bullard  had 
a  painful  experience  in  his  obstetric  practice.  Dr. 
Holmes  had  not  yet  promulgated  his  views  on  the  con- 
tagiousness of  puerperal  fever,  but  it  was  demon- 
strated in  the  work  of  Dr.  Bullard  who  lost  ten  cases 
in  one  year,  when  he  sadly  abandoned  all  obstetric 
work  for  some  months.  In  1862,  Dr.  Bullard  organized 
and  conducted  for  a  time  a  hospital  for  sick  Confed- 
erate soldiers  confined  at  Camp  Morton.  He  went  on 
a  mission  to  attend  Indiana  soldiers  at  Vicksburg,  and 
while  in  the  line  of  duty  contracted  a  malignant  dys- 
entery. He  returned  home  to  survive  but  a  short 
time,  dying  prematurely  at  tlie  age  of  forty-eight. 
Address,  S.  T.  1859,11,  sketch  S.  T.  1894,  212j. 

BUNTON,  EDWIN  A.— Greensfork   (1846-1899).     S. 
T.  1899,  407. 

BURK,   GEORGE   L.— Jamestown    (1820-1891).     S. 
T.   1892,  282. 


248         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

BUEKE,  GEORGE  W.— New  Castle  (1841-1901).  S. 
T.  1902,  410.    I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xx,  226. 

BUELINGAiVIE,  E.  G.— Oakland  City   (1867-1909). 

BURT,  JA:MES  CLARK.— Vernon  (1817-1875).  Dr. 
Burt  was  born  in  Cumberland  County,  New  Jersey,  in 
1817.  He  attended  Hanover  College,  Hanover,  Ind., 
and  Lafayette  College,  Easton,  Pa.,  graduating  at  the 
latter.  His  medical  education  was  received  at  Jeffer- 
son College,  Philadelphia. 

He  located  in  Vernon,  Jennings  County,  Indiana,  in 
1842  and  practiced  medicine  there  until  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1875.  Doctor  Burt  was  very  active  in  religi- 
ous and  educational  matters.  He  was  for  many  years 
a  trustee  of  the  State  Institution  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  at  Indianapolis,  the  Vernon  Academy,  and  for 
a  long  time  was  Pension  Examiner. — Dr.  W.  H. 
Stemm,  North  Vernon. 

BURTON,  GEORGE  W.— Mitchell  (1836-1898).  S. 
T.  1899,  388. 

BYERS,  ALEXANDER  R.—  Petersburg  (1829- 
1897).     S.  T.  1898,  378. 

BYFORD,  WILLIA^I  H.— Chicago  (1817-1890).  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  at  Eaton,  Ohio,  March 
20,  1817;  when  he  was  a  mere  child  his  parents  re- 
moved to  New  Albany,  Ind.,  where  they  remained  but 
a  short  time,  and  then  removed  to  Crawford  county, 
111.  Here  the  future  physician  began  to  learn  the 
trade  of  a  tailor,  and  later  removed  to  Vincennes,  Ind., 
where  he  continued  to  work  at  his  trade.  Colonel 
Vail,  with  whom  I  served  in  the  Civil  War,  told  me 
that  he  had  often  seen  young  Byford  sitting  on  his 
bench  at  work,  with  a  Latin  grammar  at  his  side,  with 
which  he  employed  every  spare  moment.  He  began 
his  practice  at  Owensville,  Ind.,  under  the  custom  then 
prevailing  in  this  state,  armed  with  a  certificate  signed 
by  three  commissioners  appointed  for  the  purpose.  He 
graduated  at  the  Ohio  Medical  College  in  1844.  He 
practiced  at  Mt.  Vernon  until  1850,  when  he  removed 
to  Evansville  to  accept  the  chair  of  anatomy  in  the 
Evansville  Medical  College.  In  1852  he  was  transferred 
to  the  chair  of  Theory  and  Practice,  a  position  he  re- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA,         249 

tained  until  1856,  at  which  time  the  school  ceased  to 
exist.  He  continued  to  practice  in  Evansville  until 
1857,  when  he  was  called  to  Chicago  to  fill  the  chair 
of  Obstetrics  and  Diseases  of  Women  and  Children. 
His  rapid  rise  in  that  city  was  a  pride  to  all  his 
Indiana  friends,  but  can  be  only  alluded  to  in  this 
article,  which  is  confined  to  Indiana  triumphs  in  medi- 
cine. Educating  himself  in  the  midst  of  lowly  poverty, 
and  rising  to  a  high  rank  as  a  practitioner,  lecturer, 
and  author,  his  life  and  example  are  a  stimulus  to 
others.  His  distinguished  son,  Dr.  Henry  T.  Byford, 
was  born  in  Evansville,  Nov.  12,  1853.  In  the  Trans- 
actions of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society  for  1854, 
p.  78,  Dr.  Byford  contributes  "Report  of  the  Proceed- 
ings of  the  American  Medical  Association." 

CADY,  WILLIAM  F.— Lafayette  (1826-1883).  S. 
T.  1884,  224.  Dr.  Cady  was  one  of  the  early  advocates 
of  the  free  school  system  and  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Tippecanoe  County  Medical  Society.  He  filled  sev- 
eral honorable  positions  as  surgeon  during  the  civil 
war. 

CANADY,  W.  H.— Knightstown  (1821-1873).  S.  T. 
1873,  124. 

CANNON,  GEORGE  H.— New  Albany  (1852-1907). 
Lived  and  died  in  his  native  city.  Was  a  member  of 
the  Floyd  County  Medical  Society,  and  was  loved  and 
respected.  Death  was  due  to  obstruction  of  the  bowels 
caused  by  a  gall-stone. 

CAREY,  ISAAC— Marion  (1812-1909).  Was  a  resi- 
dent of  Grant  county  for  fifty-nine  years. 

CARR,  GEORGE  W.— Ligonier  (1830-1895).  S.  T. 
1895,  416. 

CARSON,  WILLIAM  F.— Huntington  (1851-1900). 
S.  T.  1901,  481. 

CASSELBERRY,  ISAAC— Evansville  (1821-1873). 
Dr.  Casselberry  was  a  native  of  Posey  county,  Indiana. 
After  graduating  at  the  Ohio  Medical  College  he 
located  in  Evansville.  At  the  commencement  of  the 
Civil  War  he  was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  First  In- 
diana Cavalry  Regiment,  and  served  in  that  capacity 


250         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

until  the  close  of  the  war.  From  the  time  that  Evans- 
ville  was  placed  under  sanitary  regulations,  until  his 
death,  Dr.  Casselberry  filled  the  office  of  the  secretary 
of  the  Board  of  Health.  In  1871  he  was  appointed  pro- 
fessor of  physical  diagnosis  in  the  Evansville  Medical 
College.  He  contributed  an  article  on  "An  Inquiry 
Into  the  Physiology  of  the  Organic  Nervous  System." 
Am.  Jour.  Med.  Sciences,  1852.  "Causes  of  Fever,"  lb., 
April,  1856.  "Ancient  Marriages  of  Consanguinity," 
lb.,  1859.  Also  a  series  of  articles  on  "The  Causes  of 
Epidemics,"  Nashville  Med.  and  Surg.  Jour.,  from  No- 
vember, 1857,  to  May,  1858.  His  writings  are  acknowl- 
edged to  be  valuable  aids  to  medical  knowledge.  See 
Trans.  Ind.  State  Med.  Soc,  1874,  179;  lb.,  1855,  52, 
"An  Inquiry  into  the  Physiology  of  the  Organic  Ner- 
vous System,"  and  lb.,  1872,  93,  "The  Mode  in  Which 
Electricity  Acts  on  the  Human  Organism."  Both  of 
these  articles  contributed  to  the  State  Medical  Society 
are  practical  papers. 

CHA^IBERLAIN,  JAMES  N.— Waterloo  (1822- 
1896).    S.  T.  1896,  265. 

CHAMBERLAIN,       SAIVIUEL       B.  —  Lawrenceburg 

(1825-1897).    S.  T.,  1898,  389. 

CHAMBERS,  JOHN.— Indianapolis  (1846-1892). 
Born  in  Belfast,  Ireland,  in  1846,  and  was  educated  at 
the  Dublin  University.  Came  to  Indianapolis  in  1873. 
He  was  a  teacher  for  fifteen  years  in  the  Indiana  Med- 
ical College,  filling  the  chairs  of  anatomy,  principles 
and  practice  of  medicine,  and  adjunct  professor  of  dis- 
eases of  women.    See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  p.  88. 

CHANNING,  WILLIAM  S.— Pendleton  (1851- 
1906).   S.  T.  1907,  489. 

CHARLES,  HENRY.— Formerly  Carthage  (1822- 
1884).  Was  born  in  Randolph  County  in  1822.  Grad- 
uate of  Indiana  Medical  College,  1872  or  '73,  but 
practiced  in  Grant  County  previously  to  that  date. 
Was  a  member  of  the  Grant  County  Medical  Society. 
He  was  intimately  associated  with  Drs.  William  and 
Constantine  Lomax,  Home,  and  Meek.  They  all 
worked  together  professionally  during  the  "saddle  bags 
age."      He    moved    from    Fairmount    to    Carthage    in 


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1878,  and  went  to  Kansas  in  April,  1884,  and  died 
there  July  11,  1884.  He  contributed  an  article  on 
"Tobacco  and  Its  Toxic  Effects."  Trans.  1881,  121.— 
Dr.  Etta  Charles,  daughter,  Summitville. 

CHAELTON,  SAMUEL  H.— Seymour  (1826-1897). 
S.  T.  1897,  353.  He  was  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Sixth 
Indiana  Vols,  in  the  Civil  War.  In  1882  was  vice- 
president,  and  1888  president,  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Society.  In  the  State  Transactions,  1887,  55, 
is  an  article  from  his  pen,  entitled  "Is  There  a  Typho- 
Malarial  Fever?"  Transactions,  1888,  5,  another 
article,  "President's  Address,  Relating  to  the  Work  of 
the  Society.  See  Robson,  p.  639.  Stone  (with  por- 
trait), p.  83. 

CHENOWETH,  JOHN  T.— Winchester  (1833-1903). 
S.  T.,  1903,  335. 

CHENOWETH,  NELSON  T.— Windsor  (1837-1909). 
Was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War,  having  served  in  one 
or  two  Ohio  regiments.  Member  of  Randolph  County 
Medical  Society. 

CHENOWITH,  GEORGE  F.— Huntington  (1849- 
1899).     S.  T.  1900,  319. 

CHITWOOD,  GEORGE  R.— Connersville  (1805- 
1893).  S.  T.  1893,  251.  In  1831  he  located  at  Scipio. 
In  1838  he  removed  to  Liberty,  and  in  1840  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  practicing  both  law  and  medicine. 
In  1840  he  was  elected  associate  judge  of  Union 
County  Circuit  Court,  in  which  position  he  served  seven 
years.  In  1859  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  general 
pathology  in  the  Cincinnati  College  of  Medicine  and 
Surgery,  and  to  the  chair  of  obstetrics  in  1861.  He 
located  at  Connersville  in  1847.  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xii,  p.  32. 

CHITWOOD,  JOSHUA.— Connersville  (1838-1903). 
S.  T.  1903,  336.  Was  surgeon  of  the  Seventh  Regiment 
Indiana  Cavalry. 

CHURCHILL,  JOHN  M.— Indianapolis  (1863-1893). 
S.  T.  1894,  222. 

CLAPP,  ASAHEL.— New  Albany  (1792-1862).  Born 
in  Massachusetts  Oct.  5,  1792,  and  died  Oct.  29,  1862. 
Located  in  New  Albany  in  1817.     Was  present  at  the 


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Medical  Convention,  June  6,  1849. —  (Miss  Lydia  Town- 
send.  ) 

CLAPP,  WILLIAM  A.— New  Albany  (son  of  above) 
(1822-1900).  Was  born  in  New  Albany,  Oct.  29,  1822, 
and  died  in  same  city  Nov.  7,  1900.  Was  a  graduate 
of  the  Jefferson  Medical  College  (1848).  Was  surgeon 
of  the  Thirty-eighth  Peg.  Ind.  Vols.  Was  a  member 
of  the  Medical  Convention,  June  6,  1849. —  (Miss  Lydia 
Townsend. ) 

CLAPK,  DOUGAN.— Richmond  (1828-1896).  Dr. 
Clark  was  born  in  Pandolph  county,  North  Carolina, 
May  17,  1828.  He  graduated  from  Haverford  College 
in  1852.  Three  years  later  he  entered  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Maryland,  and  after 
removing  to  Indiana  completed  his  medical  studies  at 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where  he  received  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1861.  He  lived  at 
Carthage,  Westfield  and  Indianapolis,  in  this  state,  and 
located  at  Pichmond  in  1866,  and  became  professor  of 
Greek  and  Latin  at  Earlham  College.  In  1869  he  en- 
tered the  ministry  in  the  Friend's  Church.  His  death 
occurred  from  pernicious  anemia,  Oct.  10,  1896. — 
Abridged  from  record  by  Dr.  Edmond  Clark,  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  XV,  p.  295. 

To  the  State  Transactions  he  contributed  an  article 
on  "Female  Doctors,"  1867,  116,  and  a  second  on 
"Anesthetics  in  Midwifery,"  1871,  29.  A  charm  was 
added  to  Dr.  Clark's  articles  and  discussions  by  his 
musical  voice  and  clear  delivery, 

CLAPK,  J.  C— Corydon  (1809-1895).  I.  M.  J.,  Vol. 
xiv,  177. 

CLAPK,  LEMON  W.— Elkhart  (1858-1896).  S.  T. 
1896,  267. 

CLAPK,  WILLIAM  P.  S.— Bluffton  (1820-1882).  S. 
T.  1883,  267. 

COCHPAN,  JAMES.— Spiceland  (1824-1894).  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xii,  410. 

COE,  ISAAC— Indianapolis  (1782-1855).  S.  T. 
1893,  18.  Was  born  in  Morris  county,  New  Jersey, 
July,  1782.  For  a  time  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  glass  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  but  soon  afterward  studied 


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medicine,  and  came  to  Indianapolis  in  1821.  He  first 
built  a  cabin  near  the  bank  of  Fall  Creek,  which  was 
known  as  "the  house  with  glass  windows."  A  few 
years  later  he  built  a  commodious  frame  dwelling  on 
the  Circle,  where  he  resided  until  1853,  and  then  moved 
to  Galena,  111.,  where  he  died  in  1855.  His  remains 
were  brought  back  and  buried  in  Crown  Hill  Cemetery, 
by  the  side  of  his  wife.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
and  from  the  first  an  Elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  and  the  father  of  Sunday  schools  in  Indian- 
apolis. He  exerted  an  influence  for  good  in  Indian- 
apolis which  will  continue  to  the  end  of  time. 

I  notice  in  Lockerbie,  Assessment  List  of  1835  that 
Dr.  Coe  owned  a  number  of  lots  in  the  town  of  Indian- 
apolis. They  were  valued  at  $2,720;  personal,  $500; 
buildings,  $1,000,  and  his  taxes  amounted  to  $11.80, 
which  he  promptly  paid. 

COGLEY,  THOMAS  J.— Madison  (1814-1895).  Born 
near  Kittanning,  Pa.,  March  20,  1814.  Began  practice 
at  Brookville  in  1837.  In  1853-54  studied  abroad  in 
Great  Britain  and  France.  In  1845  established  him- 
self in  Madison  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  the 
date  of  his  death,  Dec.  23,  1895.  Became  a  member 
of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1855,  and  was  a  vice- 
president  of  same  in  1857.  See  '"'Address  of  Dr.  Cogley 
on  Hospitals  in  Europe."  Trans.  1856,  66.  Also 
"Report  on  the  Practice  of  Medicine."  Trans.  1857, 
19. 

COLE,  HENRY  C— Kokomo  (1838-1881).  S.  T. 
1882,  197. 

COLE,  WILLIAM  C— Attica  (1828-1894).  S.  T. 
1894,  228.  Dr.  Cole,  at  the  age  of  18,  enlisted  in  the 
regular  army,  and  served  in  Mexico  under  General 
Scott.  In  the  Civil  War  he  was  surgeon  of  the  Seventy- 
second  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  and  during  the  last  year  of  the 
war  was  brigade  surgeon  of  Wilder's  Brigade  of 
Mounted  Infantry. 

COLLINS,  GEORGE  M.— Tipton  (1838-1896).  S. 
T.  1897,  363.  Dr.  Collins  served  as  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  Seventeenth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  from  December, 
1864,  to  the  close  of  the  war. 

COLLINS,  WILLIAM  A.— Madison  (1842-1883).  S. 
T.  1884,  208. 


254         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

COLLUM,  WILLIAM  F.— Jeffersonville  (1812- 
1866).  He  was  an  eminent  surgeon,  locating  in  Jeffer- 
sonville in  1838.  Was  mayor  of  that  city  from  1848 
to  1855,  and  served  in  tile  city  council  several  terms. 
Died  in  Jeffersonville,  Sept.  19,  1866,  from  blood 
poisoning  resulting  from  wound  received  in  making 
post-mortem  examination. —  (Note  from  Drs.  Peyton 
and  Field,  Jeffersonville.) 

Dr.  Collum  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  State  Med- 
ical Society  in  1849. 

COLVEET,  WILLIAM.— Fountain  county  (1816- 
1883).     S.  T.  1883,  281. 

COMINGOR,  JOHN  A.— Indianapolis  (1829-1908). 
Dr.  Comingor  for  many  years  was  a  practitioner 
in  Indianapolis,  and  at  one  time  professor  of  sur- 
gery in  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana.  For  two 
years  prior  to  his  death  he  had  retired  from  practice 
and  made  his  home  with  his  daughter  in  Davenport, 
Iowa,  where  his  death  occurred  Jan.  8,  1908.  Con- 
tributed article  on  "Excision  of  Bone,"  Trans.  1866,  72. 
Was  surgeon  of  the  Eleventh  Regiment  Indiana  Infan- 
try. 

COMPTON,  JOHN  W.— Evansville  (1825-1905).  S. 
T.  1905,  444.  Dr.  Compton  contributed  the  following 
articles  to  our  State  Transactions:  "Sanitary  Prog- 
ress," 1881,  18;  "Animal  Vaccination,"  1882,  188,  and 
"The  Treatment  of  Ante-partum  Hemorrhage,"  1888, 
75.  He  was  quite  a  contributor  to  medical  journals 
and  medical  societies.     See  Robson,  p.  606. 

COOPER,  WILLIAM.— New  Albany  (1809-1879). 
Was  born  at  Chambersburg,  Pa.,  March  27,  1809. 
Graduated  at  Jefferson  Medical  College  in  1834,  and 
in  1835  located  at  New  Albany,  and  for  a  time  was  in 
partnership  with  Dr.  Pleasant  S.  Shields.  He  was  a 
visitor  to  the  Jeffersonville  penitentiary  in  the  forties, 
and  added  several  humane  conditions  to  that  institu- 
tion. His  name  is  on  the  list  of  physicians  at  the  con- 
vention of  1849.  During  the  Civil  War  he  was  a  sur- 
geon in  the  military  hospital  at  New  Albany.  He  died 
July  10,  1879.  Dr.  Samuel  Cooper  (1838-1888),  son  of 
the  above,  moved  to  St.  Louis  county,  Missouri,  where 


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he  died  in  March,  1888. — Letter  from  Mrs.  Mary- 
Cooper  Moore,  Wichita,  Kas.,  daughter  of  William 
Cooper. 

COREY,  LAV ANNER.— Grant  county  (1834-1896). 
S.  T.  1897,  350. 

CORLEW,  RUrUS  M.— Evansville  (1843-1896).  S. 
T.  1896,  272. 

CORNETT,  WILLIAM  T.  S.— Madison  (1805-1897). 
Was  horn  July  11,  1805,  at  Carrolton,  Ky.,  and  died 
at  Madison,  Ind.,  May  6,  1897.  He  came  to  Indiana, 
locating  at  Versailles,  Ripley  county,  in  1825,  where 
he  remained  in  active  practice  for  forty  years.  At  the 
time  Dr.  Cornett  located  in  Indiana,  each  judicial  dis- 
trict constituted  a  medical  district,  and  the  district 
society  had  three  censors  whose  duty  it  was  to  examine 
applicants,  and  if  found  qualified  they  would  give  a 
permit  to  practice  until  the  next  meeting  of  the  society. 
Dr.  Cornett  came  under  this  rule.  In  1852  the  Univer- 
sity of  Louisville  and  the  Indiana  Central  Medical  Col- 
lege each  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine. 

Dr.  Cornett  was  the  first  president  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society,  and  delivered  the  first  annual 
address  at  Indianapolis,  May  15,  1850.  Published  in 
Transactions  1850,  13. 

In  1866,  having  become  somewhat  infirm,  Dr.  Cor- 
nett gave  up  active  practice  and  removed  to  Madison, 
where  he  practiced  only  in  consultation.  Here  he  be- 
came interested  in  geology  and  in  time  became  thor- 
oughly familiar  with  the  geology  of  southern  Indiana. 

He  represented  the  county  of  Ripley  in  the  State 
Senate  for  six  years,  beginning  in  1841.  Dr.  Cornett 
writes  (I.  M.  J.,  May,  1893,  323)  :  "At  the  session  of 
1843-4,  when  the  revenue  bill  of  the  House  was  re- 
ported to  the  Senate  I  moved  to  amend  the  bill  so  that 
an  additional  one  cent  on  the  hundred  dollars  be  levied 
as  a  fund  with  which  to  build  a  Lunatic  Asylum.  This 
amendment  was  carried  in  the  Senate,  and  the  House 
concurred  in  the  amendment.  With  this  fund  a  farm 
was  purchased  near  Indianapolis,  and  on  it  the  first 
Hospital  for  the  Insane  erected.  This  property  is  said 
now  to  be  worth  a  million  and  a  half  dollars.     The  his- 


256         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

tory  of  the  origin  and  progress  of  this  institution  has 
been  written  and  published  more  than  once,  and  there 
has  been  no  mention  of  my  name  in  connection  with  it. 
For  the  truth  of  my  statement  see  Senate  Journal, 
1843-4,  page  521.  The  above  injustice  is  my  apology 
for  naming  the  subject  here." 

Dr.  Cornett  contributed  a  number  of  valuable  papers 
on  medical  topics  to  various  journals.  In  the  Transac- 
tions of  our  state  society  he  gave  an  admirable  address 
on  the  "Use,  Progress,  State  and  Future  Prosperity  of 
Medical  Science,"  1850,  13.  Also,  "Report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  the  Practice  of  Medicine,"  1852,  33.  "A 
Case  of  Gangrene  of  the  Foot  from  Ossification  of  the 
Leg,"  1853,  151,  and  an  exceedingly  interesting  report 
(from  which  I  have  already  made  an  extensive  quota- 
tion) on  "Professional  Reminiscences,"  1874,  30.  See 
Robson,  p.  60.  See  picture,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  facing  p. 
321. 

COURTNEY,  JAMES  T.— Whitewater  (1855-1886). 
S.  T.  1887,  190. 

COWAN,  JOHN  A.— Auburn  (1843-1885).  S.  T. 
1886,  200. 

CRAPO,  JOHN  R.— Terre  Haute  (1850-1905).  S. 
T.  1906,  503. 

CRAVENS,  SAMUEL  C— Bloomfield  (1839-1903). 
S.  T.  1904,  351.    I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  162.     (Picture.) 

CRIPPEN,  E.  H.— Milroy  (1833-1896).  S.  T.  1896, 
262. 

CRIST,  DANIEL  0.— Indianapolis  (1824-1899).  S. 
T.  1899,  402.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  faculty  of  the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  (Indianapolis),  having  charge  of  the  depart- 
ment of  materia  medica  and  therapeutics. 

CROSBY,  THE.  H.— Bluffton  (1818-1883).  S.  T. 
1883,  274. 

CROSS,  JOSEPH  B.— Bainbridge  (1824-1889).  S. 
T.  1889,  215. 

CROUSE,  JEROME  H.— Dayton  (1843-1908).  Dr. 
Crouse  was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War,  having  served 
three  years  in  the  Tenth  Indiana  Light  Artillery.     He 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    I \ DIANA.         257 

was  a  native  of  Dayton,  and  practiced  there  for  twenty 
years.     See  memoir,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxvii,  3. 

CRUNKELTON,  FRED.  J.— Peru  (1869-1896).  S. 
T.  1896,  258. 

CULBERTSON,  ROBERT  H.— Brazil  (1830-1899). 
S.  T.  1900,  320. 

CUMMINS,  BENJAMIN  F.— Bluffton  (1837-1887). 
S.  T.  1887,  198. 

CUMMINGS,  HIRAM  A.— Clear  Spring  (1857- 
1905).    S.  T.  1906,  498. 

CURE,  HIRAM  W.— Martinsville  (1830-1900).  S. 
T.  1901,  482. 

CURRAN,  ROBERT.— Jeffersonville  (1806-1872). 
Dr.  Curran  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  April  3,  1806, 
and  died  at  Jeffersonville,  April  6,  1872.  In  the  spring 
of  1832,  he  located  in  Shelbyville,  where  he  remained 
two  years.  Then  he  removed  to  Charlestown.  In  1838 
he  located  in  Jeffersonville.  In  1848  the  Trustees  of 
Indiana  Asbury  University,  contemplating  the  estab- 
lishment of  a  medical  department,  Dr.  Curran  was  in- 
vited to  locate  in  Greencastle,  and  assist  in  its  organ- 
ization. The  invitation  was  accepted.  On  the  meet- 
ing of  the  board  it  was  found  impracticable  to  con- 
summate their  plans,  but  Dr.  Curran  was  elected  pro- 
fessor of  physiology  in  the  literary  department,  which 
chair  he  filled  until  the  medical  department  was  or- 
ganized, when  with  it  he  removed  to  Indianapolis  in 
1850.  In  1852,  failing  health  compelled  him  to  return 
to  Jeffersonville.  From  1853  to  1857,  he  served  as 
physician  to  the  Indiana  State  prison.  In  1855  he  was 
elected  to  the  professorship  of  materia  medica  and 
therapeutics  in  the  Kentucky  School  of  Medicine.  Dr. 
Curran  was  an  earnest  Christian. — Abridged  from 
"Biographical  Sketch,"  by  Dr.  F.  A.  Seymour,  of  Jef- 
fersonville, Trans.   1872,  p.  133. 

Dr.  Curran  was  present  at  the  State  Medical  Con- 
vention, held  at  Indianapolis,  June  6,  1849.  He  con- 
tributed a  valuable  article  to  the  State  Society,  "Nos- 
ology of  the  Diseases  which  have  Prevailed  in  Clark 
County,  Indiana,   since  1833,  with  Remarks."     Trans. 


258         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

1872,    p,    121.      Vice-president    Indiana    State   Medical 
Society,   1850. 

CUERYER,  WILLIAM  T.— Indianapolis  (1845- 
1902).    I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxi,  40. 

CURTIS,  GEORGE  L.— Columbus  (1835-1898).  S. 
T.  1898,  390.  Dr.  Curtis  graduated  in  medicine  from 
the  Indiana  Medical  College  in  1877,  was  professor  of 
hygiene  and  sanitarj^  science  in  the  Indiana  Medical 
College  from  1883  to  1890,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
was  professor  of  diseases  of  the  nervous  system  in  the 
medical  department  of  the  University  of  New  Orleans, 
having  delivered  a  course  of  lectures  in  that  institu- 
tion in  1897.  While  never  engaging  in  the  practice  of 
medicine,  he  took  a  lively  interest  in  everything  per- 
taining to  it.  He  was  author  of  a  number  of  books  of 
a  high  order,  pertaining  to  religious  subjects. 

He  was  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at 
Columbus,  Indiana,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred at  Naples,  Italy,  April  1,  1898,  while  on  a  tour 
to  the  Holy  Land.  An  interesting  sketch  of  his  life 
will  be  found  in  the  Transactions  named  above,  also  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xvi,  412. 

CUSHMAN,  ARBACES.— Graysville  (1840-1908). 
Jour.  Ind.  Med.  Assoc,  Vol.  i,  p.  205.  Was  a  soldier 
of  the  Civil  W^ar. 

CUSH]\IAN,  DANIEL  W.— Terra  Haute  (1855- 
1907).     S.  T.  1907,  476. 

DAILEY,  JAMES  J.— Milton  (1833-1879).  S.  T. 
1880,  230. 

DALGLEISH,  HENRY  T.— Vevay  (1860-1902).  S. 
T.  1902,  411. 

DANCER,  JOHN.— South  Milford  (1830-1896).  S. 
T.  1897,  362. 

DARRACH,  GEORGE  M.— Cumberland  (1827-1910). 
Was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  Feb.  20,  1827,  and  died 
at  East  St.  Louis,  Feb.  25,  1910.  He  came  to  Indian- 
apolis in  1853.  He  was  one  of  the  early  members  of 
the  Marion  County  Medical  Society,  and  was  present 
at  the  session  of  the  State  Society  in  1860,  his  name 
appearing  in  the  list  of  members.     In  1860  he  removed 


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to  Napoleon,  where  he  practiced  for  several  years, 
when  he  came  back  to  Marion  County,  and  located  at 
Cumberland.  During  the  last  three  years  he  made 
his  home  with  a  son  in  East  St.  Louis. 

DAVENPORT,  HENDERSON  D.— Sheridan  (1846- 
1908).  Jour.  Inil.  State  Mea.  Assoc,  Vol.  1,  158.  Was 
a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War. 

DAVENPORT,  THEODORE.— Warsaw  (1828-1884). 
S.  T.  1885,  221.  Dr.  Theodore  Davenport  was  born  in 
Sullivan  county.  New  York,  Oct.  4,  1828.  Completed 
his  studies  at  the  Albanj^  Medical  College,  January, 
1851.  After  practicing  at  Oswego,  and  at  Roanoke, 
Ind.,  he  settled  in  Warsaw,  April  5,  1857,  and  practiced 
there  until  the  time  of  his  death. 

At  the  session  of  the  Legislature  in  1875  he  was 
elected  one  of  the  directors  of  the  Northern  Prison  at 
Michigan  City,  Ind.  He  w'as  president  of  the  Board  of 
Directors,  and  during  his  incumbency  (two  years)  the 
north  wing  and  a  large  workshop  were  added  to  the 
prison. 

DAVIDSON,  GREENLEAF  N.— Noblesville  (1829- 
1893).  He  was  a  corporal  in  Company  E,  168th  Reg. 
Ohio  Vols.  He  held  the  chairs  of  botany,  therapeutics 
and  materia  medica  in  the  Physio-Medical  College  of 
Indiana  from  1873  to  1891. — Dr.  W^.  A.  Spurgeon. 

DAVIS,  EUGENE  F.— Indianapolis  (1871-1903).  S. 
T.  1903,  337. 

DAVIS,  ROBERT  P.— Portland  (1836-1902).  S.  T. 
1902,  412.  For  a  short  time  was  assistant  surgeon  of 
the  Eighty-fourth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

DAVIS,  SAJVIUEL.— Indianapolis  (1814-1886).  S. 
T.  1886,  216.  Was  surgeon  of  the  Eighty-third  B.eg. 
Ind.  Vols.     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  iv,  223. 

DAY,  SAMUEL  D.— Shelby ville  (1811-1893).  S.  T. 
1894,  218. 

DAYHUFF,  A.  F.— Kokomo  (1827-1884).  S.  T.  1886, 
195. 

DE  BRULER,  JAMES  P.— Evansville  (1817-1874). 
Was  born  in  Orange  County,  North  Carolina,  Sept.  21, 
1817;   died  Aug.   12,  1874.     His  parents  moved  to  In- 


260         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

diana  when  he  was  an  infant  and  located  on  White 
Eiver,  in  Pike  County.  At  the  age  of  18  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine,  graduating  from  the  medical  de- 
partment of  the  university  at  Louisville,  Ky.  He 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Rockport,  In- 
diana, where  he  remained  nearly  twenty  years.  He 
was  married  Sept.  2,  1847,  to  Miss  Sarah  E.  Graham, 
daughter  of  Judge  J.  W.  Graham,  of  Rockport,  In- 
diana. Their  son,  Claude  Graham  De  Bruler,  was 
their  only  child. 

In  1858,  Dr.  De  Bruler  moved  to  Evansville,  Indiana, 
where  he  lived  until  his  death.  During  the  adminis- 
tration of  President  Lincoln,  he  was  appointed  sur- 
geon in  the  Marine  Hospital  in  this  city  (Evansville), 
which  position  he  filled  for  several  years.  When  An- 
drew Johnson  became  President,  without  any  solicita- 
tion on  his  part.  Dr.  De  Bruler  was  appointed  post- 
master, an  appointment  he  declined  without  taking 
charge  of  the  office,  preferring  to  give  his  entire  atten- 
tion to  his  profession. — Furnished  by  Dr.  Edwin  Wal- 
ker, Evansville. 

DE  BRULER,  JAMES  P.— Evansville  (1877-1909). 
Was  born  at  Evansville,  Indiana,  June  25,  1877;  died 
at  San  Juan,  Porto  Rico,  May  7,  1909.  Grandson  of 
Dr.  James  P.  De  Bruler,  and  son  of  Claude  De  Bruler. 
Graduated  from  the  Medical  College  of  the  University 
of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia,  in  1899.  He  was  med- 
ical officer  in  the  Baldwin-Ziegler  Polar  Expedition 
of  1901-1902.  In  January,  1903,  he  entered  the  U.  S. 
Navy;  served  at  the  Naval  Hospital,  Norfolk,  Va., 
1903-1904;  on  duty  at  naval  station  Olongapo,  P.  I., 
May-July,  1904;  on  U.  S.  S.  Elcaro  August,  1904,  to 
March  1906;  w^as  promoted  to  passed  assistant  sur- 
geon Jan.  3,  1906;  at  the  navy  j^ard,  Washington, 
D.  C,  Aug.  1,  1906,  to  Sept.  25,  1906;  on  duty  in 
Bureau  of  Medicine  and  Surgery.  Navy  Department 
and  additional  duty  at  Naval  Medical  School,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C,  Sept.  26,  1906;  on  duty  on  board  the 
U.  S.  S.,  Paducah  remaining  on  duty  until  the  day  of 
his  death. — Furnished  by  Dr.  Edwin  Walker,  Evans- 
ville. 


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De  BRULER,  OLIVER  E.— Ireland  (1857-1892).  S. 
T.  1893,  248. 

DEMING,  ELIZUR  H.— Lafayette  (1797-1855).  Dr. 
Deming  was  born  in  Great  Barrington,  Mass.,  March  4, 
1797.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Williamstown  College,  and 
was  considered  the  best  Hebrew  scholar  that  ever 
graduated  from  that  institution.  The  Greek  and  Latin 
languages  were  almost  as  familiar  to  him  as  the  Eng- 
lish. In  1827  he  received  the  degree  of  M.D.  In  1821 
he  removed  to  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  and  began  the  practice 
of  medicine,  but  being  a  Mason,  and  at  that  time  the 
order  being  persecuted,  he  changed  his  residence.  In 
1833  he  received  a  commission  as  surgeon  in  the  V.  S. 
Army,  but  ov/ing  to  the  prevalence  of  cholera  he  re- 
signed and  went  home  to  care  for  his  family.  In  1834 
he  located  in  Lafayette.  In  1842  he  defeated  Hon.  J. 
Petit  for  the  legislature,  running  as  an  anti-slavery 
candidate.  In  1846  he  was  appointed  to  the  chair  of 
materia  medica  and  therapeutics  in  the  Laporte  Med- 
ical College.  In  1853  he  was  appointed  to  the  chair  of 
general  pathology  and  clinical  medicine,  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Missouri,  and  had  just  completed  his  second 
course  before  his  decease. 

Before  his  appointment  in  Missouri,  an  informal  cor- 
respondence was  had  with  him  by  the  Regents  of  the 
University  of  Michigan,  in  reference  to  his  appoint- 
m.ent  to  the  presidency  of  that  institution.  However, 
his  anti-slavery  views  were  an  insuperable  objection 
with  those  guardians  of  private  opinion,  whose  astute- 
ness detected  the  dangerous  heterodoxy,  which  the  dull 
official  perception  of  Missouri  statesmen  totally  over- 
looked. "Of  whom  the  world  was  not  worthy!"  He 
died  Feb.  23,  1855.  He  was  president  of  the  state 
society  in  1854,  and  delivered  an  address,  found  on 
page  14  of  the  Transactions  for  that  year.  The  reader 
will  find  a  beautiful  and  scholarly  Bibliographical 
sketch  of  the  late  Dr.  Deming,  by  the  late  Dr.  John  S. 
Bobbs,  from  which  I  have  condensed  the  above,  in  State 
Transactions  for  1857,  p.  53. 

DEPEW,  RICHARD  J.— Indianapolis  (1815-1897). 
L  M.  J.,  Vol.  XV,  471. 


262         MEDICAL    ELSTORY    OF    IWDIANA. 

DE  VORE,  HEXRY  V.— Greencastle  (1854-1S92). 
S.  T.  1892,  293. 

DICKEX,  JAMES  L.— Lafontaine  (1821-1900).  S. 
T.  1900,  355. 

DILL,  NATHANIEL  C— De  Soto  (1860-1897).  S. 
T.  1897,  355. 

DILLS,  THOMAS  J.— Fort  Wayne  (1847-1899).  S. 
T.  1899,  410.  Dr.  Dills  was  a  specialist  of  promise  at 
the  time  of  his  early  death.  For  some  time  he  filled 
the  chair  of  ophthalmology  and  otology  in  the  Fort 
Wayne  Medical  College.  In  the  Transactions  named, 
Dr.  Wheelock  pays  a  fine  tribute  to  Dr.  Dills'  memory. 
In  the  Transactions  1878,  92,  he  contributes  a  "Report 
of  a  Case  of  Basedow's  or  Graves'  Disease,"  and  in 
1884,  75,  "Two  Cases  of  Intraocular  Tumors,  with  Re- 
marks." He  died  at  Pomona,  California,  while  seeking 
relief  from  a  lingering  illness. 

DOAX,  N.  W,— Curtisville  (1829-1905).  S.  T.  1906, 
501. 

DOLPH,  CASSIUS  M.— Pleasant  Lake  (1860-1899). 
S.  T.  1900,  322. 

DOXALDSOX,  EBEXEZER  F.  — Wabash  (1829 
1898).     S.  T.  1899,  383. 

DOOLEY,  ALDIX^E  J.— Marion  (1872-1906).  S.  T. 
1907,  484. 

DOWLIXG,  HEXRY  McCABE.— Xew  Albany  (1805- 
1852).  Born  April  5,  1805,  and  died  Jan.  26,  1852. 
Was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Was  a  member  of  the  Medical  Convention,  June  6, 
1849. — Judge  Dowling. 

DRAYER,  PETER.— Hartford  City  (1840-1901).  S. 
T.  1903,  338. 

DRYDEX",  THOMAS  F.— Clayton  (1835-1896).  S. 
T.  1896,  275. 

Du  KATE,  JOHX'  B.— Vincennes  (1849-1902).  S. 
T.  1903,  339. 

DUX'HA:\I,  VALEXTIXE.— Madison  county  (1812- 
1882).     S.  T.  1882,  201. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         203 

DUXLAP,  JOHX  M.— Indianapolis  (1829-1899).  S. 
T.  1899,  408.  From  1869  to  1872  he  was  demonstrator 
of  anatomy  in  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana.  Later 
he  abandoned  general  practice  and  devoted  himself  to 
diseases  of  the  nose  and  throat.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvii, 
404. 

DUNLAP,  LIVIXGSTOX.  —  Indianapolis  (1799- 
1862),  Was  present  at  organization  of  State  Medical 
Convention  in  1849,  and  presided  at  that  meeting.  At 
this  convention  Dr.  John  H.  Sanders  was  temporary 
and  Dr.  Livingston  Dunlap  permanent  president. 

DUXX'IXG,  LEH:\IAX"  H.— Indianapolis  (1850- 
1906).  Was  born  at  Edwardsburg,  Michigan,  April  12, 
1850,  and  died  at  Indianapolis,  Jan.  4,  1906.  He  began 
the  practice  of  medicine  at  Troy,  Michigan,  removed  to 
South  Bend,  Indiana,  in  1873,  and  to  Indianapolis  in 
1889,  wliere  he  continued  to  reside  until  the  date  of  his 
death. 

While  residing  at  South  Bend  his  work  and  contribu- 
tions to  medical  literature  began  to  attract  attention. 
Probably  he  was  the  first  in  the  state  to  treat  the  float- 
ing kidney  by  fixation.  He  also  did  nephrectomy  for 
suppurative  diseases.  His  early  gynecological  papers 
are  case  reports  with  remarks,  evincing  thorough 
study,  as  they  pertain  to  developmental  deficiencies  and 
anomalies  of  the  uterus  to  pelvic  peritonitis  and  to 
mammary  and  uterine  cancer.  A  very  interesting  arti- 
cle may  be  read  on  "Report  of  a  Case  of  Extirpation  of 
the  Kidney,  with  Remarks,"  Trans.  1887,  127.  The 
patient  made  a  good  recovery. 

Preparatory  to  removal  to  Indianapolis  he  spent 
some  time  abroad  in  the  hospitals  in  Vienna,  London, 
and  Paris.  On  his  return  he  was  appointed  adjunct 
professor  of  diseases  of  women  in  the  Indiana  Medical 
College.  Upon  the  death  of  Dr.  Thomas  B.  Harvey  he 
w^as  succeeded  as  professor  of  medical  and  surgical  dis- 
eases of  women  by  Dr.  Dunning.  This  new  field  being 
opened,  he  rapidly  developed  as  a  lecturer  and  instruc- 
tor, until  he  became  an  expert  teacher  and  operator. 

Honors  came  to  Dr.  Dunning.  He  was  chosen  to  the 
office  of  president  of  the  Indianapolis  Medical  Society, 
the  Indianapolis  Gynecological  Society,  and  the  Amer- 


264         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

lean  Association  of  Obstetricians  and  Gynecologists, 
and  in  1905  Chairman  of  the  Section  on  Gynecology  of 
the  American  Medical  Association. 

Professionally,  Dr.  Dunning  died  prematurely  young. 
He  was  a  religious  man  and  an  ardent  member  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

(In  the  preparation  of  this  article  I  am  especially 
under  obligation  to  the  memorial  address  on  the  life 
and  character  of  Dr.  Dunning  by  Dr.  Hugo  0.  Pant- 
zer.)  See  Stone,  p.  144,  with  portrait.  Also  editorial, 
I.  M.  J.   (with  later  portrait),  Vol.  xxiv,  266. 

DUZAN,  GEORGE  N.— Indianapolis  (1841-1893). 
Stone,  p.  608.  He  contributed  two  papers  to  the  State 
Society:  "Nature  and  Cure  of  Disease,"  Trans.  1871, 
133,  and  "Cholera  Infantum,"  Trans.  1873,  27.  See  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xii,  219.     R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  9,  p.  9. 

DWIGGINS,  MOSES  F.— Richmond  (1852-1890). 
S.  T.  1890,  161. 

EASTMAN,  JOSEPH.  —  Indianapolis  ( 1842-1902 ) . 
S.  T.  1903,  340.  Dr.  Eastman  was  born  in  Fulton 
county,  New  York,  Jan.  29,  1842.  His  early  education 
was  limited.  For  three  years  past  the  age  of  eighteen 
he  worked  at  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith.  In  1861  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Seventy-seventh  New  York  Vol- 
unteers, and  during  actual  conflict  in  battle  showed 
himself  to  be  a  brave  soldier.  After  the  battle  of  Will- 
iamsburg he  was  taken  sick  and  Avas  sent  to  Mount 
Pleasant  Hospital,  Washington,  D.  C.  After  his  recov- 
ery he  was  appointed  hospital  steward  in  the  United 
States  Army  and  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Georgetown  in  1865.  Until  1866  he  served  as  a  sur- 
geon in  the  U.  S.  Volunteers  and  was  mustered  out  at 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  the  same  year.  Dr.  Eastman  en- 
gaged in  general  practice  of  medicine  and  surgery,  first 
in  Clermont  and  later  in  Brownsburg,  Indiana,  and  in 
1875  located  in  Indianapolis,  when  he  became  demon- 
strator of  anatomy  in  the  college  of  physicians  and 
surgeons  in  that  city.  At  the  organization  of  the  Cen- 
tral College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  in  1879,  Dr. 
Eastman  accepted  the  chair  of  anatomy  and  clinical 
surgery  and  was  one  of  the  most  prominent  members 


JOSEPH  EASTMAN. 


266         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

of  the  faculty.  At  a  later  period  he  became  its  presi- 
dent and  the  title  of  his  chair  was  changed  to  diseases 
of  women  and  abdominal  siirgerj'-,  continuing  in  this 
department  of  medicine,  in  which  he  became  so  emi- 
nent, until  his  death.  From  1886  his  practice  was 
limited  to  diseases  of  women  and  abdominal  surgery. 
Hirst's  Obstetrics,  Vol.  ii,  page  267-270,  gives  him 
credit  for  being  the  second  in  the  world  and  the  only 
American  surgeon  who,  in  operating  for  extra -uterine 
pregnancy,  has  dissected  out  the  entire  sac  which  con- 
tained a  living  child,  and  saved  the  life  of  both  mother 
and  child.  In  1891  Wabash  College  conferred  upon 
him  the  degree  of  LL.D.  For  many  j^ears  Dr.  Eastman 
had  been  a  contributor  to  the  more  prominent  medical 
journals  of  the  United  States  and  he  has  been  given 
credit  for  a  considerable  amount  of  original  work  in 
the  department  of  abdominal  surgery.  Most  of  the 
instruments  which  he  used  were  either  invented  by 
himself  or  an  improvement  upon  the  ideas  advanced  by 
others.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  The  Medical 
and  Surgical  Monitor.  He  contributed  a  number  of 
valuable  papers  to  the  State  Society:  "Upward  Dis- 
location of  the  Sternal  End  of  the  Clavicle,"  Trans. 
1878,  98;  "Excision  of  the  Knee  Joint,  with  Cases," 
Trans.  1879,  108;  "A  Few  Thoughts  on  the  Anatomy, 
Surgery  and  Hygiene  of  the  Rectum,"  Trans.  1883, 
155;  "Four  Cases  of  Abdominal  Surgery,  with  Com- 
ments," Trans.  1884,  82;  "Abdominal  Surgery,  with 
Cases  and  Comments,"  Trans.  1885,  96;  "A  Case  of 
Hysterectomy,  with  Practical  Comments  on  Laparo- 
tomy," Trans.  1887,  133;  "Ovarian  Statistics— Twenty- 
one  Cases,"  I.  M.  J.,  December,  1886,  379. 

Dr.  Eastman  was  among  the  first,  if  not  the  first 
abdominal  surgeon  in  Indiana  to  operate  in  doubtful 
cases.  Prior  to  his  time  surgeons  hesitated  to  operate 
in  critical  cases  for  fear  of  a  high  mortality  record. 
He  was  fearless,  and  saved  many  valuable  lives  in  his 
own  practice,  and  taught  other  surgeons  to  do  like- 
wise. "By  rare  force  of  character,  determination  and 
hard  work  he  advanced  himself  to  a  position  of 
acknowledged  learning  and  skill  in  surgery,  gaining  a 
fame  which  was  both  national  and  international,  and 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         2G7 

his  personality  made  a  strong  impression  upon  patients 
and  doctors  alike." — Dr.  Theodore  Potter.  See  Stone, 
p.  150;  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.,  xxi,  40.  Also  "A  Sketch,"  by 
Dr.  Samuel  E.  Earp,  3Ied.  and  Surgical  Monitor,  June, 
1902  (with  portrait),  from  which  much  of  the  above 
information  was  derived.  He  was  the  first  in  America 
to  operate  in  extra-uterine  pregnancy  of  the  tubal 
variety,  dissecting  out  the  entire  sac.  Mother  and 
child  were  saved. — American  Journal  of  Ohstetrics, 
Vol.  xxi   (September,  1888). 

EGBERT,  GEORGE.— Marion  (1823-1886).  S.  T. 
1887,  189. 

EICHELBERGER,  WILLIAM  C— Terre  Haute 
(1840-1903).    S.  T.  1903,  342. 

ELBERT,  SAMUEL  A.— Indianapolis  (1832-1902). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxi,  91. 

ELDER,  ELIJAH  S.— Indianapolis  (1841-1894).  S. 
T.  1895,  400.  Dr.  Elder  was  secretary  of  the  State 
Medical  Society  from  1879  to  1894,  and  its  president 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  filled  several  chairs  in 
the  Medical  College  of  Indiana,  was  professor  of  the 
principles  and  practice  of  medicine  from  1888  until 
his  death  and  dean  from  1890.  He  contributed  to  the 
State  Society  a  number  of  valuable  papers:  "Morbo 
Lacteo,"  Trans.  174,  113;  "Immediate  Placental  Deliv- 
ery in  Natural  Labor,"  Trans.  1879,  93;  "Placenta 
Previa:  Occult  Hemorrhage  and  Malpresentation," 
Trans.  1880,  216;  "Observations  Upon  and  Glances  at 
Some  Health  Resorts  in  the  United  States,  West  of 
the  100th  Meridian,"  Trans.  1882,  152;  "Etiology  of 
Pneumonia,"  Trans.  1886,  161;  "Pyrexia,  Hyper- 
pyrexia and  Fever,"  Trans.  1891,  111.  See  biograph- 
ical sketch,  Stone,  156;  also  I.  M.  J.  (A.W.B.),  Vol. 
xii,  437. 

ELLIS,  CHARLES  S.— Wabash  (1824-1895).  Served 
faithfully  as  a  soldier  in  the  Eighth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols., 
and  later  Lieut.-Col.  of  the  153rd  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xiii,  337. 

ELLIS,  HAMILTON  E.— Greencastle  (1826-1880). 
S.  T.  1881,  241. 


268         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

ELEOD,  MOSES  N.— Columbus  (1838-1907).  S.  T. 
1907,  474. 

ESPY,  JAMES  0.— New  Palestine  (1845-1881).  S. 
T.  1885,  213. 

EVANS,  JOHN.— Died  July  3,  1897,  aged  83  years. 
At  one  time  he  was  superintendent  of  the  Indiana 
State  Insane  Asylum.  In  1848  he  bcame  a  lecturer  in 
Rush  Medical  College.  He  was  instrumental  in  found- 
ing Evanston,  111.,  and  for  a  time  president  of  North- 
western University  at  Evanston.  He  was  an  ex-gov- 
ernor of  Colorado,  in  which  state  he  died.  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  xvi,  79. 

EVERTS,  ORPHEUS.— Cincinnati  (1826-1903).  Dr. 
Everts  was  born  at  Salem,  Indiana,  Dec.  26,  1826.  He 
graduated  from  the  Indiana  Medical  College  at  La- 
porte  in  1846,  and  later  at  University  of  Michigan, 
and  Rush  Medical  in  1867.  He  served  as  surgeon  of 
the  Twentieth  Ind.  Vols,  in  the  Civil  War.  In  1868 
he  was  made  superintendent  of  the  Central  Hospital 
for  Insane,  a  position  he  occupied  with  honor  for 
eleven  years.  Later  he  assumed  charge  of  the  Cincin- 
nati Sanitarium  as  superintendent,  which  position  he 
held  at  the  time  of  his  death,  June  20,  1903.  See  for 
biographical  sketches,  Robson,  p.  582,  Stone,  161,  and 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  36.     (Picture.) 

FANNING,  FREDERICK  W.— Butler  (1841-1906). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  XXV,  195. 

FARQUHAR,  ALLEN  H.— Ridgeville  (1835-1904). 
S.  T.  1904,  352. 

FARQUHAR,  URIAH.— Logansport  (1795-1872). 
Was  born  at  Fredericksburg,  Maryland,  Jan.  5,  1795. 
Ten  years  later  he  moved  to  Wilmington,  Ohio,  where 
a  few  years  later  he  began  his  medical  studies,  which 
he  finished  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  After  several  years' 
practice  in  Ohio,  he  came  to  Logansport,  Indiana,  in 
1836,  and  continued  the  practice  of  his  profession  until 
a  short  time  before  his  death,  which  occurred  Nov.  3, 
1872.  He  never  lived  in  Wabash. — Mary  Farquhar 
Peters,  Logansport,  daughter. 

Dr.  Farquhar  was  present  at  the  medical  convention 
held  at  Indianapolis,  June,  1849,  and  wrongly  credited 


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to  Wabash,  in  the  proceedings.  At  this  meeting  lie 
was  elected  a  vice-president.  Strange,  his  first  name  is 
not  given  anywhere  in  the  various  transactions. — 
G.  W.  H.  K. 

FEATHERSTON,  JOHN  R.— Indianapolis  (1841- 
1886).    S.  T.  1886,  215. 

FERGUSON,  DAVID.— Union  City  (1813-1884).  S. 
T.  1884,  221. 

FERREE,  FRANK  M.— Indianapolis  (1856-1889). 
S.  T.  1890,  155. 

FERREE,  SHADRACH  L.— Indianapolis  (1830- 
1901).    S.  T.  1901,  483. 

FERRIS,  SAMUEL.— New  Castle  (1822-1902).  S. 
T.  1902,  413. 

FIELD,  NATHANIEL.— Jeffersonville  (1805-1888). 
Dr.  Field  was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  Kentucky, 
Nov.  7,  1805.  In  the  fall  of  1829  he  located  in  Jeffer- 
sonville. In  1839  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  Legis- 
lature. He  was  one  of  the  first  anti-slavery  men  of 
the  West;  inherited  several  valuable  slaves  and  soon 
afterward  emancipated  them.  He  was  surgeon  of  the 
Sixty-sixth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  during  the  Civil  War.  He 
was  president  of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1869. 
He  contributed  a  number  of  valuable  papers  to  medical 
journals  and  also  to  the  State  Society.  The  following 
papers  appear  in  the  Transactions:  "Cholera,"  1868, 
114;  "The  Troubles  and  Responsibilities  of  the  Med- 
ical Profession,"  address,  1869,  1;  "Thoracentesis," 
1872,  77;  "The  Expectant  Mode  of  Medication,"  1873, 
31;  "The  Etiology  of  Endemic  Fevers,"  1882,  84;  "A 
Notice  of  Bacteria  Microscopy,"  1883,  100,  and  "Blood 
Poisoning,"  1887,  93.  In  the  latter  article  he  refers 
to  the  case  of  the  late  President  Garfield.  Died  at 
Jeffersonville,  Aug.  18,  1888.  See  Robson,  173.  R.  M. 
of  Ind.  Dis.  3,  p.  17. 

FISHBACK,         CHARLES.  —  Indianapolis  18— 

1862).  In  1859  Dr.  Fishback  removed  from  Shelby- 
ville  to  Indianapolis.  He  was  a  very  prominent  man 
of  marked  ability,  although  somewhat  given  to  hob- 
bies.     He   took   an   active  part   in   the   affairs   of   the 


270         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

local  and  of  the  State  Medical  Societies.  On  one  occa- 
sion he  and  Dr.  P.  H.  Jamison  were  appointed  on  a 
committee  to  apply  to  the  Legislature  for  such  laws  as 
the  j)rofession  needed.  In  speaking  of  him,  Dr.  J. 
says:  "I  found  him  a  hard  worker,  persistent  and 
strenuous,  but  with  all  of  our  efforts  we  accomplished 
but  little." 

He  met  his  death  in  1862  in  a  most  tragic  manner. 
Lawrence  M.  Vance,  a  prominent  citizen,  died  suddenly 
after  a  day  or  two  of  illness  of  what  was  undoubtedly 
spotted  fever,  although  it  was  not  recognized  as  such 
at  the  time;  it  appeared  later  in  the  community.  An 
autopsy  was  had  and  in  some  way  Dr.  Fishback  punc- 
tured one  of  his'  fingers;  this  was  followed  by  a  viru- 
lent blood  poisoning  in  a  few  days  which  resulted  in 
death.  He  was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church. — Dr.    Frederick   C.    Warfel,   Indianapolis. 

While  a  resident  of  Shelbyville,  Dr.  Fishback  made 
a  valuable  ''Eeport  of  the  Committee  on  Medical  Edu- 
cation." Trans.  1859,  p.  17.  Also,  a  second  report  on 
same  subject.  Trans.  1860,  p.  56.  These  reports  are 
well  worth  a  perusal  at  the  present  day.  Was  vice- 
president  of  the  State  Medical  Society,  I860.— G.  W. 
H.  K. 

FISHER,  SAIIUEL.— Greencastle  (1823-1887).  S. 
T.  1888,  207. 

FITCH,  GRAHAM  N,_Logansport  (1808-1892),  a 
native  of  New  York,  located  in  Logansport  in  1834. 
In  1844  he  was  appointed  to  a  professorship  in  the 
Rush  Medical  College.  He  occupied  the  chair  of  Pro- 
fessor of  Principles  and  Practice  of  Surgery  in  the 
Medical  College  of  Indiana  for  four  years,  and  was 
Emeritus  Professor  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

Dr.  Fitch  was  a  prominent  politician.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Indiana  Legislature  from  1836  to  1840. 
From  1848  to  1852  he  represented  his  district  in  Con- 
gress, and  from  1856  to  1861  he  was  United  States 
Senator  from  Indiana. 

His  grandfather  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution; 
his  father  of  the  war  of  1812,  and  Dr.  Fitch  himself 
rendered  valuable  service  in  the  Civil  War  as  Colonel 
of  the  Forty-sixth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 


WILLIAM   B.   FLETCTIEPv 


MEDICAL    IfJSTOh'Y    01^'    INDIANA.         271 

He  died  in  Logansport,  Nov.  28,  1892,  at  the  ripe 
age  of  84.  (Stone,  161.)  Also  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  214. 
R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.   10,  p.  17. 

FLETCHER,  WILLIAM  B.— Indianapolis  (1837- 
1907).  S.  T.  1907,  496.  Dr.  Fletcher  was  a  man  of 
varied  attainments,  as  physician  and  scientist.  His 
experience  comprised  soldier,  physician,  teacher,  author 
and  specialist,  and  in  every  department  he  was  with 
the  advance  guard.  The  scope  of  this  work  will  not 
admit  of  details.  The  reader  is  referred  to  the  follow- 
ing references  for  his  larger  history:  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  of  the  U.  S.,  Robson,  129,  Stone,  163,  and  Dr. 
R.  H.  Ritter  has  furnished  an  excellent  biographical 
and  obituary  notice  in  the  Transactions,  1907,  496,  and 
in  the  same  volume,  498,  James  Whitcomb  Riley  pays 
him  a  pretty  compliment  in  a  poem  entitled  "The  Doc- 
tor." 

His  medical  and  scientific  papers  were  compre- 
hensive and  numerous.  To  the  State  Society  he  fur- 
nished the  following,  in  Transactions:  "Human 
Entozoa,"  1866,  88;  "Cerebral  Circulation  in  the  In- 
sane," 1887,  105;  "Purulent  Absorption  Considered  as 
a  Cause  of  Insanity,"  1892,  164,  and  "The  Effects  of 
Alcohol  Upon  the  Nervous  System,"  1895,  335.  Por- 
trait, frontispiece,  1907.   I.  M.  J.,  xxv,  439.    (Picture.) 

FLORER,  THOMAS  W.—  (  1822-1907) .  S.  T.  1907, 
483.  Dr.  Florer  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  came  to 
Indiana  when  he  was  10  years  old.  He  graduated 
from  the  Ohio  Medical  College  in  1850,  and  began 
practice  at  Alamo,  and  later  removed  to  Crawfords- 
ville.  In-  1849  Dr.  Florer  was  a  delegate  to  assist  in 
the  organization  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society 
at  Indianapolis,  and  was  made  one  of  the  vice-presi- 
dents. At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War  he  was  made 
surgeon  of  the  Twenty-sixth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  and  served 
until  1866.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  made  his  home 
at  Meridian,  Miss.,  until  1875,  when  he  removed  to 
Waxahachie,  Texas,  where  he  continued  to  practice 
medicine  until  1905.  During  the  administrations  of 
Presidents  Arthur  and  Harrison  he  served  as  postmas- 
ter at  his  home. 


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In  1899  lie  attended  the  golden  jubilee  of  the  In- 
diana State  Medical  Society,  held  at  Indianapolis, 
being  one  of  four  living  charter  members  of  the  State 
Society,  namely,  William  H.  Wishard,  Thomas  W. 
Florer,  John  M.   Gaston,  and  Patrick  H.  Jameson.    I. 


THOMAS  W.  FLORER. 


M.  J.,  Vol.  XXV,  p.  500.     See  pictures  of  the  four  per- 
sons named.  Trans.  1899,  facing  p.  9. 

FORD,  JAMES.— Wabash  (1812-1898).  Dr.  Ford 
was  a  native  of  Ohio,  born  Jan.  19,  1812,  and  died  at 
Wabash,  Dec.  30,  1898.  Was  the  second  man  in  Wabash 
to  enlist  in  the  Civil  War.  Was  surgeon  of  the  Eighth 
Ind.  Vols.,  then  a  brigade  surgeon,  and  in  1863,  when 


MEDICAL    niHTORY    OF    IXDIANA.         273 

he  resigned,  a  medical  director.  See  T.  'SL  J.,  Vol. 
xvii,  281.     R.  M.  of  Ind.  Dist.  11,  p.  15. 

FORD,  JOSEPH  H.— Auburn  (1823-1905).  S.  T. 
1905,  445. 

FRANCE,  JOHN  W.— Dunkirk    (1858-1889).    S.   T. 

1892,  279. 

FREEMAN,  WILLIAM.— Camden  (1809-1883).  S. 
T.  1883,  280.  For  a  short  time  was  surgeon  of  the 
Seventh  Reg.  Ind.  Cav.  and  Fifty-Second  Ind.  Inf. 

FRINK,  CHARLES  S.— Elkhart   (1835-1893).    S.  T. 

1893,  261.  Was  commissioned  by  the  President,  As- 
sistant Surgeon  of  Volunteers,  Oct.  4,  1862,  promoted 
to  Surgeon,  March  3,  1864,  and  to  Brevet  Lieut.-Col., 
Aug.  15,  1865. 

FRY,  THOMAS  W.— Lafayette  (1814-1873).  S.  T. 
1874,  183.  Dr.  Fry  first  practiced  at  Crawfordsville 
and  later  at  Lafayette,  where  he  died,  Feb.  24,  1873. 
He  was  surgeon  for  some  time  of  the  Eleventh  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols.  Dr.  S.  G.  Irwin,  of  Crawfordsville,  con- 
tributes a  biographical  sketch  in  the  Transactions 
named.  In  the  volume  named,  p.  107,  Dr.  W.  W.^  Vin- 
nedge,  of  Lafayette,  contributes  a  record  of  an  inter- 
esting mal-practice  suit  in  which  Dr.  Fry  sued  for  a 
bill,  and  was  successful.  Contributed  to  State  Medical 
Society,  "Medical  Inhalation."     Trans.   1860,  30. 

FUNKHOUSER,  DAVID.— Indianapolis  ( 1820- 
1886).  S.  T.  1894,  212n.  Dr.  Funkhouser  was  born  in 
Virginia,  May  31,  1820.  Graduate  of  Bethany  Col- 
lege, Va.,  1845,  and  of  Jefferson  Medical  in  1847,  and 
soon  afterwards  located  in  Indianapolis,  where  he 
lived,  and  died  July  21,  1886.  He  was  a  prominent 
physician  of  our  capital.  I  have  a  kindly  remembrance 
of  the  good  doctor  who  vaccinated  me  in  1861,  as  I 
was  on  my  way  to  the  Civil  War.  See  a  very  inter- 
esting and  beautiful  tribute  to  his  memory  by  Dr.  P. 
H.  Jameson,  Trans.  1894,  212n. 

GADDY,  NELSON  D.— Seymour  (1831-1901).  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  446.  Contributed  "A  Few  Thoughts 
Concerning  Systematic  Prevention  of  Disease."  Trans. 
1883,  63. 


274         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

GALBRAITH,  THOMAS  S.— Seymour  (1846-1904). 
S.  T.  1904,  353.  He  began  practice  in  Bartholomew 
county,  but  removed  to  Seymour  in  1870.  Here  he 
continued  in  practice  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  ex- 
cept from  1887  to  1889,  when  he  was  superintendent  of 
the  Central  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  and  from  1895  to 
1897,  when  he  conducted  a  similar  institution  in  Okla- 
homa.    See  Stone,  179. 

GALL,  ALOIS  D.— Indianapolis  (1814-1867).  Was 
assistant  surgeon  and  later  surgeon  of  the  Thirteenth 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols.     Stone,  179.    (Picture.) 

GAREY,  DUMONT.— Xew  Albany  (1855-1906).  S. 
T.  1906,  492. 

GARVER,  JOHN  JAjMES.— Indianapolis  (1845- 
1901).  S.  T.  1901,  484.  Dr.  Garver  was  a  soldier  of 
the  Civil  War,  and  upon  his  return  home  pursued  the 
study  of  medicine,  graduating  at  the  Ohio  Medical  Col- 
lege in  1876.  He  immediately  located  at  Indianapolis. 
He  contributed  an  article  on  "Asiatic  Cholera"  to  the 
State  Society.     Trans.  1885,   195.    See  Stone,   180. 

GASTON,  JOHN  M.— Indianapolis  (1818-1901).  S. 
T.  1901,  485.  Dr.  Gaston  was  born  in  Newbury,  Penn- 
sylvania, Sept.  25,  1818,  and  died  at  Indianapolis,  Jan. 
11,  1901.  He  graduated  at  the  University  of  New 
York  in  1848.  While  a  student  there  he  witnessed  the 
introduction  of  chloroform  by  Dr.  Valentine  Mott  and 
to  Dr.  Gaston  was  given  the  honor  of  first  using  it  in 
Indianapolis.  (Dr.  Theodore  Potter.)  He  was  one  of 
the  organizers  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society  in 
1849,  and  was  one  of  the  four  survivors  at  the  golden 
jubilee  in  1899.  The  portraits  of  the  four,  Drs.  W.  H. 
Wishard,  T.  W.  Florer,  J.  M.  Gaston  and  P.  H.  Jame- 
son, are  given  on  the  same  page  of  the  Transac- 
tions for  1899,  8.  Dr.  Gaston  was  the  first  to  pass 
away,  and  then  Dr.  Florer,  in  1907. 

In  1850  he  went  to  California  with  others  in  search 
of  gold,  and  returned  two  years  later.  He  contributed 
an  article  on  "Propylamin  in  Rheumatism."  Ind. 
Jour,  of  Med.,  Vol.  i,  353.     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  316. 

GATCH,  JAMES  D.— Lawrenceburg  (1831-1907). 
Dr.  Gatch  was  born  at  Milford,  Clermont  county,  Ohio, 


MEDICAL    HlHTOJiV    OF    IXDIAXA.         275 

March  5,  1831,  and  died  Jan.  27,  1907.  Was  assistant 
surgeon  of  the  Sixteenth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  President 
State  Medical  Society,  1890.  He  contributed  to  the 
State  Society,  "Harmony  and  Associated  Action  in 
Connection  with  State  Medicine,"  Trans.  1880,  153. 
President's  address,  "What  of  the  Day?"  Trans. 
1890,  5. 


JOHN  M.  GASTON. 

GAUSE,  THOMAS.— Greensfork  (1846-1882).  S.  T. 
1883,  208. 

GETS,  JOHN  F.— Indianapolis  (1868-1904).  S.  T. 
1904,  354.  "He  was  born  and  reared  in  Indianapolis. 
With  a  special  interest  in  chemistry,  he  took  post- 
graduate work  at  De  Pauw  University  under  Dr.  P. 


276         MEDICAL    HIiSTORY    OF    IXDIAyA. 

S.  Baker,  whose  assistant  he  afterward  became  in  the 
Medical  College  of  Indiana.  He  was  promoted  in  the 
department  of  medical  chemistry  until,  after  the  death 
of  Dr.  Baker,  he  became  his  successor  in  the  full  chair 
of  chemistry  and  toxicology." — Dr.  Theodore  Potter. 
He  is  the  author  of  a  work  entitled  "Physiological 
and  Clinical  Chemistry,"  December,  1902.  See  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xxii,  415. 

GERRISH,  JAMES  W.  F.— Seymour  (1831-1883). 
S.  T.  1884,  212.  Dr.  Gerrish  was  assistant  surgeon 
and  later  surgeon  of  the  Sixty-seventh  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 
His  voice  and  pen  were  always  on  the  right  side  of 
every  moral  reform.  See  Memoriam,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  ii, 
109.     R.  M.  of  Ind.  Dist.  3,  p.  19. 

GIFFORD,  THOMAS.— Laurel  (1816-1885).  S.  T. 
1886,   199. 

GLASGO,  THOMAS  A.— Brazil  (1839-1908).  Jour. 
Ind.  State  Med.  Assoc,  Vol.  i,  367. 

GOLDSBERRY,  JOHN  A.— Bloomingdale  (1835- 
1901).  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  403.  Was  assistant  surgeon 
First  Heavy  Artillery    (21st)    Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

GOOD,  ALONZO  H.— Muncie  (1843-1908).  Jour. 
Ind.  State  Med.  Assoc,  Vol.  i,  439.  Was  a  soldier  in 
the  Sixty-ninth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

GOSS,  JAMES  M.— Freedom  (1840-1892).  S.  T. 
1892,  288. 

GRAHAM,  ANDREW  E.— Richland  (1824-1897). 
S.  T.  1898,  384. 

GRANT,  GEORGE  H.— Richmond  (1868-1908).  Dr. 
Grant  was  elected  president  of  the  Indiana  State  Med- 
ical Society  in  1905  and  presided  at  the  session  of 
1906;  title  of  address  was  "Medical  Education  and 
Medical  Progress,"  Trans.  1906,  1.  He  contributed  a 
number  of  articles  to  medical  journals.  See  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  xxiv,  40.  J.  I.  S.  M.  A.  (with  excellent  portrait). 
Vol.  i,  401. 

GRAVIS,  CHARLES  M.— Martinsville  (1845-1908). 
Was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War,  and  for  some  time  a 
prisoner  in  Libby  and  Andersonville.  He  practiced 
medicine  in  Martinsville  for  twenty-five  years. 


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GRAY,  JOHN  M.— Xoblesville  (1836-1899).  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xviii,  140.  Was  surgeon  of  the  Thirty-ninth 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

GRAY,  SAMUEL  C— Warsaw  (1821-1883).  S.  T. 
1883,  276. 

GRAYSTON,  FREDERICK  S.  C— Huntington 
(1823-1898).  S.  T.  1898,  398.  Born  in  England,  he 
emigrated  to  America  in  1850.  Graduated  at  the 
Rush  Medical  College  in  1863.  In  1886  he  was  elected 
to  a  professorship  in  the  Fort  Wayne  Medical  College, 
filling  for  several  years  the  several  chairs  of  diseases 
of  children,  theory  and  practice  of  medicine,  and  path- 
ology. 

GREEN,  CHARLES  H.— North  Vernon  (1833-1891). 
Dr.  Green  was  born  in  Columbiana  County,  Ohio,  Jan. 
26,  1833.  Began  the  practice  of  medicine  at  Butler- 
ville,  Jennings  County,  Indiana,  in  1857.  In  1858  he 
moved  to  North  Vernon  and  continued  to  practice 
until  his  death,  June  7,  1891.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
first  County  Medical  Society  organized  in  the  county 
and  was  a  member  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  always 
took  an  active  part  in  the  society. — Dr.  J.  H.  Green, 
son.  North  Vernon. 

GREEN,  JAMES  W.— Shelbyville  (1825-1896).  S. 
T.  1897,  346. 

GREEN,  LOT.— Rushville  (1847-1905).  S.  T.  1905, 
446. 

GREGG,  HENRY.— Roanoke  (1815-1887).  S.  T. 
1887,  195. 

GREGG,  JAMES  S.— Fort  Wayne  (1830-1890).  S. 
T.  1890,  160.  Dr.  Gregg  was  a  native  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. Graduated  at  Jefferson  College  in  1866,  after 
having  attended  one  course  of  lectures  in  Cleveland  in 
1855.  He  located  in  Fort  Wayne  in  1866.  He  was 
president  of  the  State  Society  in  1886.  He  contributed 
the  following  named  articles  to  the  State  Society,  and 
published  in  the  Transactions:  "Medical  Education," 
1876,  107;  address,  "Glimpses  of  a  Few  of  the  Beacon 
Lights  of  Medical  History,"  1886,  2.  In  1886,  135, 
and  1889,  179,  each,  "Locomotor  Ataxia,"  in  which  he 
describes  his  own  case,  dying  one  year  later  from  the 


278         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

disease,  Jan.  18,  1890.     Surgeon  of  Eiglity-eightli  Keg. 
Ind.  Inf. 

GREGG,  VINCENT  H.— Connersville  (1825-1895). 
S.  T.  1896,  256.     Surgeon  124th  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

GRIFFIS.  ROBERT.— Middletown  (1827-1909).  He 
located  in  Middletown  in  1853,  and  continued  to  reside 
there  until  his  death,  Nov.  18,  1909. 

GUYER,  0.  K.— Lewisville  (1853-1902).  S.  T.  1902, 
414. 

HADLEY,  EDWIN.— Richmond  (1824-1890).  S.  T. 
1891,   280. 

HADLEY,  EVAN.— Indianapolis  (1845-1903).  Dr. 
Hadley  was  for  thirty  years  a  leading  practitioner  of 
Indianapolis.  He  was  consultant  at  the  City  Hos- 
pital for  nearly  twenty-five  years  and  for  fifteen  years 
held  medical  clinics  before  the  college  students  at  the 
hospital.  His  numerous  reports  of  hospital  and  clin- 
ical cases  were  always  full  of  interest.  He  contributed 
a  number  of  papers  to  the  State  Society,  which  ap- 
pear in  the  Transactions;  "Addison's  Disease — Report 
of  a  Case,"  1885,  55;  '"Emmenagogues."  1886,  82,  and 
"Biliousness,"  1895,  127.  Two  years  prior  to  his 
death,  which. occurred  May  12,  1903,  he  was  compelled 
to  relinquish  practice  owing  to  organic  heart  disease, 
and  removed  to  his  boyhood  home  at  Mooresville, 
where  he  passed  away  cheered  by  the  Christian's  hope. 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxi,  528.     Picture  on  p.  528. 

HAGGERTY,  ROBERT  J.— Elkhart  (1822-1880). 
S.  T.  1880,  229. 

HAINES,  ABRAM  B.— Aurora  (1823-1887).  S.  T. 
1888,  216.     R.  M.  of  Ind.  Dist.  4,  p.   15. 

HALL,  WESLEY  C— Franklin  (1830-1899).  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xviii,  361.     Was  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War. 

HALLANAN,    JOSEPH.— Logansport    (1850-1909). 

HAIM,  LEVI  J.— South  Bend  (1805-1887).  Was  a 
native  of  Maine.  He  removed  to  South  Bend  prior  to 
the  Civil  War,  and  was  surgeon  of  the  Forty-eighth 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  Robson,  135.  R.  M.  of  Ind.  Dist.  13, 
p.  30. 


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HAMMOND,  FRAXCIS  J.— Indianapolis  (1837- 
1895).  S.  T.  1895,  409.  Was  a  native  of  England,  and 
came  to  America  in  July,  1887.  During  the  Russo- 
lurkish  War,  for  a  period  of  eighteen  months,  he  prac- 
ticed medicine  and  surgery  in  Constantinople.  He 
located  in  Indianapolis  soon  after  his  arrival  in  the 
United  States.  He  was  a  close  friend  to  Luther 
Holden  and  Sir  James  Paget.  His  death  was  due  to 
leucocythemia,  and  occurred  Feb.  1,  1895.  See  I  M 
J.,  Vol.  xiii,  385. 

HARDIXG,  MYROX  H.,  SR.-Lawrenceburg  (1810- 
1883).  S.  T.  1886,  205.  He  was  elected  president  of 
the  State  Society  in  1865,  and  has  contributed  the  fol- 
lowing articles  to  that  organization,  as  shown  bv  the 
Transactions:  "Report  of  Committee  on  Practice  of 
Medicine,"  1853,  24:  "President's  Address,"  1866.  21 
and  "Xotes  on  an  Epidemic  of  Ervsipelas  and  Puer- 
peral Fever,  at  Manchester,  Indiana,  durinc.  the  winter 
of  1842-3,"  1885,  114.  See  Robson.  103.°  R  M  of 
Ind.,  Dist.  4,  p.  31. 

HARDING,  MYRON  H.,  JR.-Lawrenceburg    (1855- 
1879).     S.  T.  1880,  241. 

HARDMAN,  JACOB.— South  Bend  (1804-1885)  Dr 
Hardman  was  born  in  Virginia,  April  29,  1804  and 
died  at  South  Bend  July  21,  1885.  He  located  in  South 
Bend  m  August,  1831,  and  practiced  until  1859,  when 
he  retired  from  active  work. 

He  rendered  medical  services  at  Camp  Morton  dur- 
ing the  early  part  of  1861,  and  later  for  a  time  at 
Nashville,  Tenn.  He  helped  to  organize  the  first 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  also  Sunday  School 
in  South  Bend.  He  was  a  member  of  the  first  medical 
society,  and  president  of  the  first  temperance  societv 
in  the  county.— Miss  Margaret  Hardman,  Marion,  Ind^ 
Daughter.  ' 

HARGROVE,  WTLLIA2M  S.— New  Salem  (1843- 
1894).    S.  T.  1895,  203. 

HARRIS,  RICE  C— Ellettsville    (1834-1894)      S    T 
1895,  406. 


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MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 


HARRIS,    WILLIAM    C— RoacMale     (1827-1901). 
S.  T.,  1901,  486. 

HARROD,   SANFORD  H.— Canton    (1827-1888).    S. 
T.  1888,  199. 

HARTLOFF,    RICHARD.— Evansville     (1845-1900). 
S.  T.  1901.  487. 


THOMAS  B.  HARVEY. 


HARVEY,  THOMAS  B.— Indianapolis  (1827-1889). 
S.  T.  1890,  158.  Dr.  Harvey  was  a  native  of  Ohio.  Gradu- 
ated at  the  Ohio  Medical  College  in  1852.  Practiced 
at  Plainfield  from  1852  to  1862,  when  he  removed  to 
Indianapolis,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  Dec. 
5,  1889,  dying  from  a  stroke  of  apoplexy,  received 
while  delivering  a  lecture.  He  was  elected  president 
of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1880.  He  stood  high 
as  a  physician,  gynecologist,  author  and  teacher.     His 


MEDWAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         281 

friends  were  numerous,  and  his  personal  magnetism 
attracted  physicians  and  students.  He  wrote  valuable 
articles  for  medical  journals,  and  contributed  a  num- 
ber to  the  State  Society:  "Report  on  New  Remedies," 
1861,  39;  '"Puerperal  Eclampsia,"  1863,  37;  "Preven- 
tion and  Treatment  of  Laceration  of  the  Perineum,'^^ 
1871,  113;  "The  Advance  in  Medicine — Address^' 
1881^  1;  "Laceration  of  the  Cervix  Uteri,"  1883,  245; 
"Synopsis  of  Paper  on  Laparotomy,"  1886,  65; 
"Ovarian  Disease  Complicated  by  Pregnancy,"  1887, 
150,  and  "Conditions  Rendering  Diagnosis  Difficult  in 
Pelvic  and  Abdominal  Diseases,"  1888,  100.  For  an 
excellent  biographical  sketch,  see  Stone,  209.  See  also 
"Memorial  Remarks  on  the  Late  Dr.  Thomas  B.  Har- 
vey," by  Drs.  A.  W.  Brayton,  James  F.  Hibberd, 
William"  Lomax,  William  H.  Wishard  and  L.  H.  Dun- 
ning, Transactions,  1890,  168.  Also  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  viii, 
153.      (Editorial.) 

HARVEY,  WILLIAM  F.— Plainfield  (1825-1901). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  315. 

HASTY,  GEORGE. — Indianapolis  (1835-1905).  At 
different  times  he  occupied  the  chairs  of  chemistry, 
anatomy  and  surgery,  and  also  dean,  of  the  Physio- 
Medical  College  of  Indiana.  For  some  time  he  was 
editor  and  publisher  of  the  Physio-Medical  Journal.— 
Dr.  W.  A.  Spurgeon. 

HAUGHTON,  RICHARD  E.— Richmond  (1827- 
1909).  Was  born  in  Fayette  county,  Dec.  8,  1827,  and 
died  June  4,  1909.  Dr.  Haughton  was  elected  president 
of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1874,  and  presided  at 
the  session  of  1875.  He  was  quite  a  contributor  to 
medical  journalism.  His  contributions  to  the  State 
Society  were  recorded  in  the  Transactions  as  follows: 
"\  Report  on  the  Treatment  of  Syphilitic  Diseases, 
Without  the  Use  of  Mercury,"  1859,  23;  "Report  of 
the  Committee  on  Diphtheria,"  1860,  51;  "Epidemic 
Cerebro-Spinal  Meningitis,"  1865,  47;  "The  Pathology 
and  Treatment  of  Cholera,"  1866,  60;  "Tracheotomy 
in  Cynanche  Trachealis,  Diphtheria  and  Laryngitis," 
1867,  122;  "Reduction  of  Dislocation  of  the  Hip;  Prin- 
ciple's of  the  Flexion  Method,"  1870,  71;   "Influence  in 


282         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Disease  of  the  Nervous  System,"  1871,  143;  "The 
Pathology  of  Malignant  and  Semi-malignant  Growths," 
1872,  11;  "Lithotomy,  with  Report  of  a  Case,"  ib.,  85; 
"On  Thrombosis  of  the  Arteries  of  the  Extremities, 
with  an  Illustrative  Case,"  1873,  37;  "Does  Anything 
Pass  the  Capillaries  Except  Normal  Blood  Cells?" 
1874,  83;  "President's  Address:  Life,  Mind,  Force  or 
Vital  Dynamics,"  1875,  1;  "Dilatation  and  Contrac- 
tion of  Blood  Vessels  and  Tubular  Structures,"  1877, 
61;  "A  Case  of  Fracture  of  the  Cervical  Spine,"  1879, 
144,  and  "Amputation  at  the  Knee-joint,"  1881,  75. 

He  was  a  practitioner  for  sixty  years,  one-half  of 
that  time  at  Richmond. 

HAYMAKER,  GEORGE  W.— Charleston  (1831- 
1900).     S.  T.  1901,  488. 

HAYMOND,  WILLIAM  S.— Indianapolis  (1823- 
1885).  S.  T.  1886,  211.  Dr.  Haymond  was  a  native 
of  West  Virginia,  and  came  to  Monticello  in  1851. 
Entered  the  service  in  1861  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Forty-sixth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  In  1874  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  Congress.  In  the  spring  of  1877  he  located 
in  Indianapolis,  and  in  1879  was  elected  to  the  chair 
of  surgery  in  the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  which  he  continued  to  hold  until  his  death, 
Dec.  24,  1885.  He  contributed  to  the  State  Society  an 
article  on  "The  Collapsed  State  of  Cholera,"  Trans. 
1867,  100,  and  a  second  article  on  "Human  Longevity," 
ib.,  1880,  73.  For  biographical  sketch  see  Stone,  212. 
See  also  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  iv,  156.  R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  7, 
p.  85. 

HAYS,  FRANKLIN  W.— Indianapolis  (1858-1908). 
Born  in  Eldorado,  Ohio,  April  2,  1858.  While  yet  a 
boy  his  parents  removed  to  Columbus,  Indiana.  He 
graduated  from  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana;  in 
1880.  For  a  time  he  was  assistant  to  the  chair  of 
chemistry  and  toxicology  in  his  Alma  Mater.  Later 
he  lectured  on  dermatology  and  venereal  diseases,  and 
was  made  superintendent  of  Bobbs  Free  Dispensary. 
Eventually  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  materia 
medica,  therapeutics  and  dermatology,  and  was  made 
secretary  of  the  college.  See  sketch,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol. 
xxvi,  412.     For  biographical  sketch  see  Stone,  636 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         28;} 

HAYES,  GEORGE  C— Hillsboro  (1836-1903).  S. 
T.  1904,  355. 

HEADY,  WILLIAM  S.— Jamestown  (1849-1903).  S. 
T.   1903,  344. 

HEATWOLE,  JOSEPH  H.— Goshen  (1853-1899).  S. 
T.  1900,  324.  Born  in  Kansas,  April  6,  1853.  Gradu- 
ated at  the  Ohio  Medical  College  in  1878.  In  1883 
located  in  Goshen.  Was  once  mayor  of  that  city. 
Early  in  the  Spanish-American  War  was  commis- 
sioned as  major  and  commissary  of  volunteers.  At 
the  close  of  the  war  he  remained  and  became  one  of 
Gen.  Woods'  most  eflficient  officers.  His  official  duties 
did  not  exact  any  professional  duties  of  him,  but  real- 
izing that  his  services  were  needed  for  fever  subjects, 
he  went  to  their  relief,  and  succumbed  to  yellow  fever, 
at  Santiago  de  Cuba,  July  7,  1899. 

HEAVENRIDGE,  ALLEN.  —  Stilesville  ( 1829- 
1902).    S.  T.  1902,  415. 

HEDGES,  ISAAC  B.— Clinton  (1820-1883).  S.  T. 
1883,  275. 

HELM,  JEFFERSON.— Rushville  (1803-1888).  R. 
M.  of  Ind.,  DJst.  6,  p.  36. 

HELM,  JOHN  C— Muncie   (1812-1872). 

HELM,  JOHN  H.— Peru  (1826-1899).  He  was  a 
native  of  Tennessee.  Located  in  Peru  in  1860.  He 
served  one  year  in  the  Mexican  War.  Was  elected 
president  of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1875,  and 
delivered  an  address  at  the  following  session.  Trans. 
1876,  1,  on  "State  Medicine."  For  biographical  sketch 
see  Robson,  52.    I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvii,  453. 

HENDERSON,  HARVEY  D.— Salem  (1819-1896). 
S.  T.  1896,  270. 

HENDERSON,  JAMES  T.— Covington  (1846-1905). 
S.  T.  1905,  447. 

HENNING,  ROBERT.— Jeffersonville  ( 1847-1897 ) . 
S.  T.  1897,  358. 

HENSLEY,  JOHN  H.— Madison  (1857-1897).  S.  T 
1897,  301. 


284         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IXDIA^A. 

HENTHORNE,  LEWIS  S.— Indianapolis  (1846- 
1895).  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War  (86tli  Ohio 
Vols.).  Professor  of  Physiology  in  the  Indiana  Dental 
College.     I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xiii,  415. 

HEPvRMAXN,  JOH^sL— Logansport  (1834-1899).  S. 
T.  1900,  325. 

HERVEY,  FRANK  F.— Fortville  (1856-1893).  S. 
T.  1893,  215. 

HERVEY,  JA:MES  W.— Indianapolis  (1819-1905). 
S.  T.  1905,  448.  He  was  one  of  the  very  early  mem- 
bers of  the  State  Society,  and  was  a  contributor  to  its 
Transactions:  "The  Utility  of  Force  and  Its  Con- 
trolling Influences  in  Medicine,"  1873,  99;  "A  State 
Board  of  Health  and  an  Asylum  for  Chronic  Inebri- 
ates," 1876,  133;  "How  to '  Secure  Medical  Legisla- 
tion," 1877,  51;  "Some  of  the  Unsolved  Problems  of 
Public  Hygiene  and  Synteretic  Jurisprudence,"  1880,' 
162;  "Mental  Hygiene,"  1881,  37.  He  was  asst. -sur- 
geon of  the  Fiftieth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  He  was  known 
as  the  father  of  the  State  Board  of  Health.  He  Avas  an 
uncompromising  temperance  man,  and  more  than  fifty 
years  ago  wrote  and  published  "The  Scroll  and  Locket, 
or  The  Maniac  of  the  Mound;  a  Temperance  Tale." 
See  I.  M.  J..  Vol.  xxiii,  332.  Also  see  interesting 
sketch,  Stone,  215. 

HESS,  LUTHER  W.— Cadiz  (1821-1883).  S.  T. 
1883,  278. 

HIBBERD,  JAMES  F.— Richmond  (1816-1903).  S. 
T.  1904,  356.  Medical  societies,  and  especially  our 
State  Society,  were  lonesome  when  Dr.  Hibberd  left 
this  world.  He  was  elected  president  of  the  State 
Medical  Society  in  1862,  and  presided  in  1863,  and 
was  chosen  president  of  the  American  Medical  Asso- 
ciation in  1893,  and  presided  in  1894.  His  contribu- 
tions to  the  former  were  numerous,  and  always  in- 
structive: "Report  of  Committee  on  Medical  Educa- 
tion," 1861,  22;  "Inflammation,  as  Seen  by  the  Light 
of  Cellular  Pathology,"  1862,  40;  "President's  Ad- 
dress," 1863,  11;  "The  Liver,"  1865,  30;  "Bile,"  1867, 
56;  "Pathology  of  Diphtheria,"  1868,  17;  "Progress  of 
Medicine,"    1871,    201;    "Infantile    Convulsions— What 


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286         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Should  be  the  Treatment  During  the  Paroxj^sm?" 
1878,  53;  "Bacteria,"  1882,  179;  "Post-partum  Hemor- 
rhage," 1884,  112,  and  1885,  131;  "Disinfectants," 
1886,  53;  "Myxedema — Report  of  a  Case  with  Com- 
ments," 1889,  26;  "Inflammation — Past  and  Present," 
1892,  41;  "Relation  of  Matter  and  Mind  in  Hypno- 
tism," 1895,  306.  He  also  made  an  annual  report  on 
Necrology  from  1881  to  1899. 

Verily,  it  may  be  said  of  Dr.  Hibberd  that  he  rests 
from  his  labors  and  his  works  do  follow  him.  For 
biography  see:  Robson,  59;  Stone,  216;  I.  M.  J.,  Vol. 
xii,  23;  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  162;  Am.  Biog.  Hist,  of 
Eminent  and  Self-made  Men  of  the  State  of  Indiana, 
1880,  6th  Dist.,  38. 

HICKA:M,  WILFRED.— Spencer  (1856-1904).  S. 
T.  1905,  450. 

HIGDAY,  TOMPKINS.— Laporte  (1820-1876).  S. 
T.  1880,  236.  Dr.  Higday  contributed  the  valuable  his- 
torical article  on  "The  Indiana  Medical  College,  La- 
porte, from  1842  to  1850,"  Trans.  1874,  24.  He  was  a 
graduate  of  the  institution  just  named  (1847)  and 
filled  the  chair  of  plwsiology  and  general  pathology 
in  it  from  the  date  of  his  graduation  until  the  dissolu- 
tion of  the  school,  1850.  He  was  twice  appointed  sur- 
geon during  the  Civil  War,  but  was  hindered  from 
service  because  of  ill  health. 

HIGGINS,  CARTER  B.— Peru  (1843-1894).  S.  T. 
1895,  407.  See  sketch  by  B.  R.  Graham,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol. 
xiii,  240. 

HIGHIMAN,  LOUIS.— New  Harmony  (1845-1879). 
S.  T.  1880,  227. 

HILBURN,  EBER  W.— Washington  (1837-1897). 
S.  T.  1898,  382. 

HITT,  WILLIS  WASHINGTON,  Vincennes  (1801- 
1876),  was  born  Feb.  11,  1801,  and  died  Aug.  17,  1876. 
Graduated  at  a  medical  college  in  Baltimore,  about 
1822.  After  a  service  of  one  or  two  years  in  a  hospi- 
tal in  that  city,  he  located  in  Hagerstown,  Md.  In 
1825,  he  removed  to  Vincennes,  Indiana,  where  he  con- 
tinued in  practice  until  the  day  he  had  been  in  practice 
fifty  years,  when  he  retired.     Was  present  at  the  med- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         287 

ical   convention,   June,   1849. — Dr.   A.   B.   Knapp,   Vin- 
cennes. 

HOBBS,  WILSON.— Knightstown  (1823-1892).  Dr. 
Hobbs  was  born  at  Salem,  Ind.,  Aug.  21,  1823,  and 
died  July  24,  1892.  He  was  a  remarkable  man  in 
many  respects.  He  touched  life  in  all  its  salient 
points — family,  school,  church,  citizen,  soldier,  doc- 
tor— and  in  every  relation  did  his  duty.  He  was  faith- 
ful and  active  in  his  county  and  state  societies.  To 
the  latter  he  contributed  a  number  of  papers:  "Dis- 
ease of  the  Skull;  Four  Operations  for  Removal," 
Trans.  1870,  101;  "Chloroform  and  Chloral  in  the 
Treatment  of  Puerperal  Convulsions,"  1871,  51; 
"President's  Address — Alcohol  and  Its  Use,"  1874,  1; 
"Counter  Injuries  of  the  Pelvis,"  1876,  95;  "The  Med- 
ical Witness,"  1877,  33;  and  1878,  13;  "Strangulated 
Hernia — Two  Puzzling  Cases,"  1885,  46,  and  "Some 
Observations  in  the  Treatment  of  Diabetes  Mellitus," 
1886,  70.  He  was  surgeon  of  the  Eighty-fifth  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols,  in  the  Civil  War.  He  presided  as  presi- 
dent of  the  State  Society  at  session  of  1874.  Biog- 
raphy, Robson,  97;  also,  "Personal  Estimate  of  Dr. 
Hobbs  as  a  Physician,"  by  Dr.  J.  F.  Hibberd.  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xi,  49;  ob.  ib.,  55. 

HOMBURG,  CONRADIN.  —  Indianapolis  ( 1798- 
1881).  He  was  born  November,  1798,  in  the  Palatinat, 
(jrcrmany.  He  studied  medicine  at  Marburg  and  Wiirz- 
burg,  and  came  to  this  country  in  1826,  as  a  political 
fugitive.  For  a  time  he  was  editor  of  the  "Weltbote" 
at  Germantown,  Pa.  In  1836  he  removed  to  Shelby- 
ville,  Ind.,  where  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine. 

In  the  year  1843,  Judge  Morrison,  of  Indianapolis, 
held  court  in  Shelbyville  in  a  case  of  alleged  poisoning, 
in  which  a  physician  was  implicated.  Dr.  H.  was 
called  as  an  expert.  The  whole  town  took  interest  in 
the  outcome  of  the  trial  because  both  physicians  were 
known  to  be  enemies.  Dr.  H.  pointed  out  to  the  court 
the  symptoms  of  various  poisons,  and  reached  the  con- 
elusion  that  it  was  not  a  case  of  poisoning,  and  his 
enemy  was  acquitted.  Then  the  judge  arose,  and  ex- 
tending his  hand  to  Dr.  Homburg,  said:     "You  are  a 


288         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    n'DIA^\±. 

man  we  need  at  Indianapolis;  come,  you  are  welcome." 
At  Indianapolis  Dr.  Homburg  was  the  physician  and 
friend  of  Morrison,  Talbott  and  Drake  families,  and 
was  a  personal  friend  of  Mrs.  Sarah  K.  Bolton.  He 
died  Feb.  11,  1881.— Letter  from  Dr.  Guido  Bell,  In- 
dianapolis. 

HOR>s"BROOK,  WILLIAM  P.— Union  (1828-1883). 
S.  T.  1884,  211.  Asst.  surg.  Forty-second  Reg.  Ind. 
Inf. 

HORNE,  SAMUEL  S.— Jonesboro    (1843-1908). 
HOWARD,   ELIJAH   J.— Hazelton    (1831-1882).    S. 
T.  1883,  269. 

HOWARD,  NOBLE  P.,  Sr.— Greenfield  (1822- 
1895).  S.  T.  1896,  254.  Born  in  Wayne  county,  Ohio, 
Sept.  11,  1822,  and  came  to  Brookville  in  1836.  Was 
assistant  surgeon  of  the  Twelfth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  in  the 
Civil  War.     Died  Aug.  25,   1895. 

HUDLESON,  LUCIUS  R.— Milroy  (1861-1905).  S. 
T.   1906,  500. 

HUGHS,  JOHN.— Dearborn  county  (1816-1880).  S. 
T.  1880,  245. 

HUMPHREYS,  LOUIS.— South  Bend  (1816-1880). 
Born  in  Springfield,  Ohio,  Sept.  21,  1816.  First  prac- 
ticed at  Laporte,  and  removed  to  South  Bend  in  1844. 
He  entered  the  military  service  in  1861  as  surgeon  of 
the  Twenty-ninth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  In  1878  was  elected 
president  of  the  State  Society,  but  later  resigned.  He 
has  contributed  to  State  Transactions  a  "Report  on 
the  Interchange  of  Published  Transactions,"  1858,  34, 
and  "Conservative  Surgery."  1878.  60.  For  biography 
see  Robson,  109.     R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  13,  p.  34. 

HUNT,  TIGHLMAN.— Plainfield  (1838-1906).  S.  T. 
1906,  496. 

HUTCHINSON,  DAVID— ( Formerly  Mooresville) 
(1812-1891).  Dr.  Hutchinson  was  born  in  Lesmehaga, 
Scotland,  in  1812,  and  came  to  America  in  1829.  He 
had  begun  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  city  of  Glas- 
gow. He  then  came  to  the  United  States,  and  at  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  he  continued  his  studies  under  Dr.  Jud- 
kins.     He  completed  his  course  and  graduated  from  the 


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Medical  College  of  Ohio.  lie  commenced  tlie  practice 
of  medicine  at  Steubenville,  Ohio.  From  there  he 
moved  to  Shelbyville,  Ind.,  and  married  at  that  place. 
He  then  moved  to  Putnamville,  Putnam  county, 
Indiana;  and  from  there  to  Mooresville,  Indiana.  He 
practiced  there  until  he  was  commnssioned  by  Governor 
Morton,  on  Dec.  12,  1862,  Military  Agent  at  Nashville, 
Tenn.,  to  look  after  the  condition  and  welfare  of  the 
Indiana  Pegiments  in  the  field,  and  especially  the  sick 
and  wounded  in  the  hospitals  belonging  to  the  State  of 
Indiana.  On  March  21,  18G3,  he  was  commissioned  by 
Governor  Morton,  surgeon  of  the  Thirtieth  Regiment, 
Indiana  Infantry,  and  served  as  such  until  August  8, 
when  he  was  discharged  from  the  service  on  account 
of  disability,  at  Winchester,  Tenn.,  and  returned  to  his 
home  at  Mooresville,  Ind.  He  wound  up  his  business 
there  and  removed  to  Winterset,  Madison  county, 
Iowa,  in  September,  1863,  and  practiced  medicine,  and 
conducted  a  drug  business  until  April,  1889.  He  then 
moved  to  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  so  as  to  be  with  his 
children,  and  practiced  his  profession  until  his  death, 
March  31,  1891.  His  remains  were  taken  back  to  Win- 
terset, Iowa,  and  buried  in  the  family  lot,  on  April  2, 
1891.  His  last  sickness  was  of  about  two  weeks'  dura- 
tion, and  he  was  nearly  eighty  years  of  age  at  death.  He 
was  an  active  member  and  worker  in  the  Presbyterian 
church.— D.  J.  Hutchinson,  son,  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa. 
He  was  elected  president  of  the  State  Society  in 
1859,  presiding  in  1860.  He  contributed  the  following 
papers  to  the  society  ( See  Transactions )  :  "Report  on 
Microscopic  Pathology,  1856,  37.  "Report  on  Micro- 
scopy," 1858,  28.  "President's  Address,"  1860,  13. 
"Report  on  the  Advances  of  Uterine  Pathology  and 
Therapeutics,"  1862,  35,  and  "Fevers  of  Indiana," 
1864,  29.  He  was  the  recipient  of  the  Fiske  Fund 
Prize  Essay  on  "Stomatitis  Materna,"  June  3,  1857: 
"What  Are  the  Causes  and  Nature  of  That  Disease 
Incident  to  Pregnancy  and  Lactation  Characterized  by 
Inflammation  and  Ulceration  of  the  Mouth  and  Fauces, 
Usually  Accompanied  by  Anorexia,  Emaciation  and 
Diarrhea;  and  What  is  the  Best  Mode  of  Treatment." 


290         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Published  in  the  Am,  Jour.  Med.  Sci.,  Vol.  xxxiv,  369 
(18  pages),  October,  1857.— G.  W.  H.  K. 

INLOW,  JOHN  J.— Manila  (1826-1896).  S.  T. 
1896,  263. 

INSLEY,  WIILIAM  Q.— Terre  Haute  (1827-1880). 
S.  T.  1881,  233. 


PATRICK  H.  JAMESON. 

IE  WIN,  LUTHER  M.— Lafayette  (1855-1903).  S. 
T.  1904,  357. 

lUTZI,  JOSEPH.— Eichmond  (1846-1902).  S.  T. 
1903,  345.  He  contributed  an  interesting  article  on 
"Heredity  and  Its  Eelation  to  Disease,"  Trans.  1882, 
136. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         291 

JACKMAN,  FRANK.— Milroy  (1855-1884).  S.  T. 
1885,  217. 

JAMESON,  PATRICK  H.— Indianapolis  (1824- 
191(?).  Dr.  Jameson  was  born  in  Jefferson  County, 
Indiana,  April  18,  1824,  and  died  at  Indianapolis, 
October  7,  1910.  He  located  in  Indianapolis  in  Sep- 
tember, 1843,  and  remained  there  until  his  death.  He 
was  a  public  spirited  citizen,  and  his  influence  was  felt 
in  all  departments  of  state  and  city  government,  fill- 
ing many  offices  of  honor  and  trust.  He  was  present 
at  the  State  Medical  Convention,  June  6,  1849,  and 
was  next  to  the  last  of  the  number  to  pass  away,  being 
survived  by  Dr.  W.  H.  Wishard.  He  contributed  an 
article  to  the  State  Society  on  "Veratrum  Viride," 
Trans.  1857,  p.  35,  also  an  article  on  "Memoirs  of  the 
Professional  Lives  of  Drs.  John  S.  Bobbs,  Charles 
Parry,  Talbott  Bullard  and  David  Funkhouser,"  Trans. 
1894,  p.  212a.  On  the  16th  day  of  December,  1909, 
on  the  anniversary  of  my  70th  birthday,  I  sent  a  card 
to  Dr.  Jameson,  and  received  a  letter  from  him,  in 
which  he  wrote :  "I  now  wait  patiently — not  unhappily 
— like  a  passenger  at  some  lonely  way  station  for  a 
delayed  train  which  shall  bear  me  to  my  destination. 
But  still,  in  the  final  accounting,  our  lives  will  be 
measured  not  by  their  duration,  but  by  their  achieve- 
ments." Peace  to  his  memory.  For  a  detailed  biog- 
raphy see  Stone,  p.  249.— G.  W.  H.  K. 

JESSUP,  ROBERT  B.— Vincennes  (1828-1893).  He 
was  surgeon  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols., 
later  a  brigade  surgeon,  and  later  division  surgeon 
under  Gen.  A.  P.  Hovey.  In  1891  he  was  appointed 
Surgeon  General  of  Indiana  by  Governor  Hovey.  See 
I.  J.  M.,  Vol.  xii,  249. 

JEWETT,  LUTHER.— Lafayette  (1805-1872).  He 
practiced  medicine  in  Lafayette  about  thirty-seven 
years.    Obit.,  I.  J.  M.,  Vol.  iii,  297. 

JOBES,  GEORGE  0.— Indianapolis  (1823-1906).  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xxiv,  359. 

JOHNSON,  CHARLES  S.— Fountain  County  (1824- 
1885).     S.  T.  1886,  209. 


292         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

JOHNSON,  LEMUEL  R.— Cambridge  City  (1824- 
1889).  Robson,  629.  He  has  contributed  an  article, 
"Abstract  of  Reports  Presented  to  the  Cambridge  City 
Medical  Association."  Trans.  1856,  34;  also,  "Thoughts 
on  Asiatic  Cholera,"  Trans.  1866,  46. 

JOHNSON,  NATHAN.— Cambridge  City  (1794- 
1872)."""  Dr.  Johnson  was  born  in  Loudoun  county, 
Virginia,  Dec.  14,  1794.  He  graduated  at  one  of  the 
medical  schools  of  Philadelphia  in  1835,  and  located  in 
Cambridge  City  in  1836.  Here  he  practiced  medicine 
for  thirty-five  years,  when  the  lot  of  the  practitioner 
was  a  hard  one.  He  was  present  at  the  formation  of 
the  State  Medical  Society,  in  June,  1849.  At  the  ses- 
sion of  1858  he  was  elected  president  of  the  state 
society,  and  presided  in  1859,  but  delivered  no  address. 
"Dr.  Johnson  was  not  only  an  influential  physician, 
much  honored  in  his  profession,  but  he  was  a  great 
factor  in  the  abolition  movement  of  those  earlier 
times;  a  great  admirer  of  William  Lloyd  Garrison, 
Wendell  Phillips,  John  Whittier,  and  others  of  the 
same  school.  Many  times  he  has  entertained  Frederick 
Douglass  in  his  own  home,  as  he  came  west,  making 
speeches  in  behalf  of  'My  People.'  He  lived  to  see  the 
slave  liberated — one  of  the  greatest  joys  of  his  de- 
clining years." — Letter  from  Mrs.  Clarissa  Johnson 
Hall,  a  grand  daughter. 

JOHNSON,  THOMAS  W.— Marion  (1838-1894).  S. 
T.  1895,  414.  Was  a  first  lieutenant  in  the  First  Wis. 
Cav.  Reg.  Later  was  assistant  surgeon  Sixth  Mo.  Cav. 
Reg.,  and  still  later  was  in  charge  of  the  general  hos- 
pitals at  Ironton,  Mo.,  and  general  prison  hospital  at 
Alton,  111. 

JONES,  CALEB  V.— Covington  (1812-1883).  S.  T. 
1884,  213.  Was  surgeon  of  the  First  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 
in  the  Mexican  War,  and  surgeon  of  the  Sixty-third 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  in  the  Civil  War.  He  located  in  Cov- 
ington in  1840,  and  was  the  first  president  of  the  Foun- 
tain  County  Medical   Society    (1867). 


*  He  was  the  father  of  Dr.  Lemuel  R.  Johnson,  and 
grandfather  of  Hon.  Henry  U.  Johnson,  of  Richmond,  ex- 
congressman. 


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JONES,  HIRAM  G.— Evansville  (1824-1884).  S.  T. 
1885,  215. 

JONES,  ROBERT  E.— Indianapolis  (1847-1891).  S. 
T.  1892,  284. 

JONES,  T.  B.— Lynnville  (1841-1902).  S.  T.  1903, 
346. 

JOSSE,  JOHN  M.— Ft.  Wayne  (1818-1880).  S.  T. 
1880,  231.  Dr.  Josse  was  born  in  Germany,  July  17, 
1818.  He  was  a  graduate  from  Heidelberg  in  1843.  He 
was  engaged  with  Carl  Schurz  and  Franz  Sigel  in  the 
German  rebellion  in  1848,  and  fled  with  them  to  Amer- 
ica. He  located  in  Ft.  Wayne  in  1855,  where  he  re- 
mained until  his  death,  April  30,  1880.  He  was  sur- 
geon of  the  Thirty-second  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  Dr.  Beck  has 
contributed  a  beautiful  tribute  to  his  memory  in  the 
Transactions  named. 

JUDKINS,  ELAM  I.— Greenfield  (1830-1890).  S. 
T.  1890,  167. 

JUMP,  SAMUEL  v.— New  Burlington  (1822-1887). 
S.  T.  1888,  204.  See  also  Am.  Biog.  Hist,  of  Eminent 
and  Self-made  Men  of  the  State  of  Indiana,  1880,  Sixth 
Dist.,  44.  In  1869  he  represented  his  county  (Dela- 
ware) in  the  State  Legislature.  He  was  active  in  the 
formation  of  the  Delaware  County  Medical  Society  in 
1865. 

JUSTICE,  JOHN  H.— Greenfield  (1854-1902).  S.  T. 
1903,  347. 

KAPPEL,  JOHN  H.— Ft.  Wayne  (1870-1898).  S. 
T.  1899,  397. 

KAUTZ,  JOHN.— Dora  (1834-1907).  L  M.  J.,  Vol. 
XXV,  450.     Was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War. 

KEEGAN,  CHARLES  J.— Millersburg  (1832-1907). 
S.  T.  1907,  495. 

KELSEY,  JEREMIAH  S.— Converse  (1842-1893).  S. 
T.  1894,  220. 

KELSO,  REESE  D.— Waveland  (1866-1896).  S.  T. 
1897,  349. 

KEMPF,  E.  J.— See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxiii,  331. 

KEMPF,  MATHEW.— Ferdinand  (1827-1880).  S. 
T.  1881,  231.     Born  in  Germany,  and  came  to  Indiana 


294         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

when  three  years  old.  Was  demonstrator  of  anatomy 
for  a  time  in  the  University  of  Louisville.  Member  of 
the  Indiana  Legislature  in  1859.  Wrote  on  various 
scientific  subjects,  especially  those  relating  to  ethnol- 
ogy. A  lecture  on  the  "Wandering  Cainidse,  or  the 
A^ncient  Nomads,"  delivered  to  the  medical  society  of 
Dubois  county,  April  22,  1879,  ranks  high  in  that  class 
of  literature. 

KEMPF,  PAUL  H.— Ferdinand  (1861-1896).  S.  T. 
1897,  344. 

KENNEDY,  SAMUEL  A.— Shelbyville  (1835-1900). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  122. 

KERSEY,  SILAS  H.— Centreville  (1818-1903).  He 
was  born  in  Guilford  County,  North  Carolina,  Dec.  9, 
1818,  and  died  in  Centreville  March  26,  1903.  Came 
to  Indiana  when  seven  years  of  age.  He  was  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  University  of  Michigan  and  began  practice 
at  Mt.  Etna,  and  later  removed  to  Lewisville,  Ind. 
He  entered  the  military  service  in  1861,  and  September 
9  of  the  same  year  was  appointed  assistant  surgeon  of 
the  Thirty-sixth  Eegiment  Indiana  Volunteers,  and  on 
March  20,  1862,  he  was  commissioned  surgeon  of  the 
same  regiment.  Later  he  was  a  brigade  surgeon  and 
was  honorably  discharged  Sept.  19,  1864.  After  the  close 
of  the  war  he  resumed  practice  in  Richmond,  later 
removed  to  Preble  County,  Ohio,  where  he  practiced 
for  twelve  years,  when  he  again  removed  to  Centre- 
ville, where  he  continued  to  practice  until  a  short 
time  before  his  death. 

KERSEY,  VIERLING.  —  Richmond  ( 1809-1875 ) . 
Born  in  Guilford  County,  North  Carolina  Sept.  8, 
1809,  and  died  at  Richmond,  June  3,  1875.  Graduate 
of  Ohio  Medical  College.  Began  practice  at  Knights- 
town  in  1838.  In  1840  located  in  Carthage;  in  1841 
removed  to  Spiceland,  where  he  remained  a  few  months, 
when  he  removed  to  Marion,  where  he  remained  until 
1844,  when  he  removed  to  Milton.  In  1861  he  located 
in  Richmond,  where  he  remained  until  his  death.  Dr. 
Kersey  was  elected  president  of  the  State  Society  in 
1866,  and  presided  in  1867. 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF    INDIANA.         295 

He  contributed  a  number  of  papers  to  the  State 
Medical  Society:  "An  Abstract  of  the  Reports  to  the 
Cambridge  City  Medical  Association  for  April,  1855," 
Trans.  1855,  22.  "This  Comprises  Meteorological  Re- 
port for  1854-5,"  ib.  25.  "Cerebrospinal  Meningitis," 
1865,  57.  "Cholagogues  and  the  Indications  for  their 
use,"  1866,  30.  "President's  Address— Physic  and 
Physicians,"  1867,  46.  "Review  of  Biliary  Function," 
1868,  24.  "Why  Doctors  Disagree,  "  1869,  10.  "Med- 
ical Rank  in  the  United  States  Navy,"  1870,  133. 
"Case  of  Muscular  Atrophy,"  1871,  129.  "Case  of 
Obscure  Disease,  Probably  Chronic  Glanders,"  1873, 
19.  See  interesting  obituary — "In  Memoriam — Vierl- 
ing  Kersey,"  signed  by  Drs.  J.  R.  Weist,  Joel  Penning- 
ton, and  S.  S.  Boyd.  Trans.  1876,  146.  Portrait  facing 
title-page  Trans.   1876. 

KESSINGER,  ELLIS  M.— Sandborn  (1857-1905).  S. 
T.  1905,  451.  "His  death  was  due  to  an  infection  re- 
ceived while  treating  one  of  his  patients,  while  per- 
forming an  operation,  for  which  he  did  not  expect,  nor 
did  he  receive  one  cent  of  remuneration." — Dr.  W.  E. 
Kessinger. 

KETCHAM,  JOHN  D.— Tunnelton  (1865-1900).  S. 
T.  1901,  490. 

KINDERMANN,  ALEXANDER.  —  Eugene  (1858- 
1905).     S.  T.  1905,  452. 

KING,  ENOCH  W.— New  Albany  (1846-1882).  S. 
T.  1882,  270.  Dr.  King  was  an  enlisted  man  in  the 
Sixty-sixth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  and  was  severely  wounded 
in  the  right  lung  at  Resaca,  Ga.,  May  15,  1864.  He 
collected  and  arranged  two  valuable  articles  on  "Sta- 
tistics of  Placenta  Prsevia,"  which  he  read  before  the 
State  Medical  Society,  Transactions  1879,  43,  and  1881, 
168. 

KING,  WILLIAM  F.— Centerville  (1824-1892).  S. 
T.  1892,  290.  Was,  at  first,  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
124th  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  and  later  promoted  to  surgeon  of 
the  147th  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  serving  until  the  close  of  the 
war. 

KNEPFLER,  NATHAN.— Indianapolis  (1803-1859). 
S.  T.  1859,  46.    Born  in  Arad,  Hungary,  October,  1803. 


296         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

In  1853  he  immigrated  to  the  United  States,  and 
located  the  same  year  in  Indianapolis.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Medical  Society,  and  at  the  session  of 
1858  made  a  "Report  on  the  Uses  and  Abuses  of  Mer- 
cury," Trans.  1858,  36. 

Dr.  Knepfler  was  a  scholar,  being  familiar  with 
Latin,  Greek,  Hebrew,  Hungarian,  German,  French, 
Italian  and,  to  a  less  extent,  English.  He  loved  the 
society  of  scholars  of  the  class  of  Dr.  Parvin.  He  was 
a  Jew,  and  he  clung  with  great  tenacity  to  Moses  and 
the  Prophets;  at  the  same  time  he  was  charitable  to 
other  faiths,  and  saw  in  Christ  the  most  Divine  of 
prophets,  but  still  could  not  believe  Him  to  be  the 
Messiah  promised  Israel.  Family  bereavements  came 
heavily  upon  him,  and  while  visiting  a  son  at  Shelby- 
ville,  Ky.,  he  died  at  that  place,  Jan.  10,  1859. — From 
an  obituary  notice  by  his  friend.  Dr.  Parvin,  Trans. 
1859,  46. 

LAMB,  JAMES.— Aurora    (1818-1894).     S.  T.   1894, 

227. 

LAMMERS,  FRANK  H.— Greencastle  (1864-1900). 
S.  T.  1900,  326.     I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xviii,  436. 

LARKIN,  JOHN  B.— Mitchell  (1833-1901).  S.  T. 
1902,  417.  Assistant  surgeon  and  surgeon  of  the  Seven- 
teenth Reg.  Ind.  Inf. 

LARUE,  BENJAMIN.— Portland  Mills  (1848-1891). 
S.  T.  1891,  285. 

LASH,  HUGH  M.— Indianapolis  (1844-1903).  S.  T. 
1904,  358.  He  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  first  practiced 
at  Athens,  in  that  state.  Located  in  Indianapolis  in 
1890.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  a  member  of  the 
City  Board  of  Health,  and  was  lecturer  on  the  physi- 
ology of  the  nervous  system  and  clinical  psychiatry,  in 
the  Medical  College  of  Indiana.  For  several  years 
prior  to  death  he  had  given  most  acceptable  clinical 
lectures  at  the  Central  Hospital  for  the  Insane.  He 
was  a  frequent  contributor  to  medical  journals,  and 
contributed  an  article  to  the  state  society  in  1892,  on 
"Cerebral  Localization,"  Trans.  1892,  150.  See  biog- 
raphical sketch  in  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  159.  Also,  "An 
Appreciation    Prepared   by    Dr.    Theodore    Potter,"    on 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         297 

same  page.  Also,  memorial  resolutions  at  a  called 
meeting  of  the  Indianapolis  Medical  Society,  Sept.  19, 
1903,  ib.  IGl.  Portrait  facing  October  number  of  same 
journal. 

LATTA,  MILTON  M.— Goshen  (1822-1899).  S.  T. 
1900,  328.  It  is  claimed  for  Dr.  Latta  that  he  per- 
formed the  first  vaginal  hj'sterotomy  in  the  state  of 
Indiana.  At  an  early  date  he  performed  successful 
ovariotomies  that  would  reflect  credit  on  the  surgeon 
of  to-day  with  our  advanced  ideas  and  technique  of 
modern  surgery.  He  contrived  a  number  of  surgical 
appliances,  and  suggested  some  improvements  in  com- 
bining nitrite  of  amyl  and  chloroform  as  an  anesthetic. 
In  November,  1870,  he  removed  a  multilocular  tumor 
which  weighed  sixty-one  and  a  half  pounds.  The  young 
woman  made  a  good  recovery.  Ind.  Jour,  of  Med.,  Vol. 
i,  292.  See  Robson,  548.  See  his  reminiscences  of  a 
half  century,  1.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  20.  Also,  "Medical  and 
Surgical  History  of  Elkhart  County."  Trans.  1875, 
p.  82. 

LAWDER,  WILLIAM  G.— Brooksburg  (1841-1890). 
S.  T.  1891,  281. 

LAWRENCE,  AMOS  0.— Indianapolis  (1849-1879). 
S.  T.  1880,  239. 

LAYMAN,  DANIEL  W.— Putnamville  (1808-1887). 
Dr.  Daniel  Wunderlich  Layman  was  born  Sept.  24, 
1808,  in  Shenandoah  Valley,  Virginia,  near  Port  Re- 
public. His  medical  education  was  more  complete  than 
the  average  medical  student  received  in  those  days, 
for  he  also  attended  medical  lectures  at  the  Jefferson 
Medical  College  at  Philadelphia  for  one  year,  1828- 
1829.  After  this  one  year's  course  at  Philadelphia  he 
commenced  to  practice  at  Port  Republic  and  Mt. 
Meridian,  Virginia,  Dr.  Layman  left  Virginia  August, 
1831.  Before  leaving,  his  uncle,  George  Imboden, 
father  of  Gen.  John  B.  Imboden,  gave  him  a  very  fine 
horse  and  open  buggy.  His  destination  Avas  Terre 
Haute,  Ind.  Hearing  that  the  country  along  the  Wa- 
bash River  was  full  of  malaria,  he  first  drove  up  to 
Philadelphia,  in  order  to  amply  supply  himself  with 
quinin.      While    there    he    equipped   himself   with    the 


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necessary  medicines  and  instruments  to  begin  practice 
in  a  western  town.  From  Philadelphia  he  drove  to 
Cumberland,  Md.;  from  the  latter  place  he  started 
west  over  the  old  National  road.  He  remained  over 
in  Indianapolis  one  or  two  nights  and  was  asked  to 
locate  there  permanently,  but  the  place  did  not  appeal 


DANIEL  W.  lAYIMAN 


to  him.  At  Putnamville,  forty-two  miles  west  of 
Indianapolis,  his  horse  became  lame  and  he  was  ob- 
liged to  stop  here  until  his  horse  recovered.  Here  he 
met  his  future  wife,  Miss  Mary  H.  Davis  Townsend, 
the  daughter  of  the  inn-keeper.  This  settled  the  ques- 
tion of  his  future  location.  He  practiced  medicine 
here  from  1831  to  1887,  not  only  in  and  around  Put- 
namville, but  also  in  the  adjoining  counties,  namely, 
Owen,  Clay,  Vigo,  Parke,  Montgomery,  Hendricks,  Mor- 
gan and  Marion.  He  was  a  man  of  iron  constitution. 
During  the  winter  season  he  often  made  use  of  three 
riding  horses'.  Some  of  his  trips  on  horse-back  were 
quite  extended.     At   one  time  he  was   known  to  ride 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         2U1J 

from  Putnamville  to  Indianapolis  and  return  in  one 
day,  where  lie  went  for  vaccines  and  vaccine  virus,  and 
■then  after  he  returned  home  rode  sixteen  miles  in  the 
country  to  visit  a  sick  patient.  His  son,  Mr.  James 
T.  Layman,  recalls  that  his  father  often  left  Putnam- 
ville at  2  a.  m.  on  horseback  for  Indianapolis,  and  re- 
turned by  2  o'clock  in  the  afternoon. 

Dr.  Layman  was  a  typical  old  fashioned  country 
practitioner  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  He  was 
highly  esteemed  by  the  people  in  the  community  who 
not  only  called  him  for  medical  advice,  but  also  for 
advice  in  matters  other  than  medical.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  the  affairs  of  the  community  and  also 
was  active  in  politics,  but  never  allowed  himself  to  be 
nominated  for  a  political  position.  In  fact,  he  once 
declined  a  nomination  for  Congress.  He  never  used 
alcoholic  beverages  nor  tobacco  in  any  form.  His 
attitude  towards  temperance  no  doubt  had  a  great 
weight  in  influencing  the  community  along  this  line. 
He  died  at  Putnamville,  Aug.  10,  1887. — Letter  from 
Dr.  Daniel  W.  Layman,  Grandson,  Indianapolis.  Most 
of  Dr.  Layman's  descendants  live  in  Indianapolis.  Mr. 
James  T.  Layman,  the  only  son  who  is  living,  is  pres- 
ident of  the  Layman-Carey  Hdw.  Co.  of  Indianapolis. 
Three  of  Dr.  Layman's  descendants  are  now  practicing 
physicians  in  Indianapolis.  They  include  two  grand- 
sons, Dr.  Francis  0.  Dorsey  and  Dr.  Daniel  W.  Lay- 
man, and  one  great-grandson.  Dr.  John  L.  Kingsbury. 
— G.  W.  H.  K. 

LEATHERMAN,    JOSEPH    H.— Valparaiso     (1819- 

1886).    S.  T.  188G,  214. 

LENNOX,    FRANK.— Marion     (1849-1892).      S.    T. 

1892,  287. 

LEONARD,  SOMERVELL  E.— New  Albany,    (1804- 

1854).      Dr.    Leonard    was    born    at    Baltimore,    Md., 

Oct.  28,  1804,  and  died  at  New  Albany,  Aug.  8,  1854. 

He  was   present   at   the  medical   convention  that  met 

at  Indianapolis,  June  6,  1849.— Miss  Lydia  Townsend, 

New  Albany. 

LESLIE,    ALEXANDER.— Petersburg     (1815-1887). 

S.  T.  1888,  201. 


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LEWIS,  GEORGE  C— Madison  (1855-1907).  S.  T. 
1907,  488. 

LIGHT,  AMOS  B.— Xorth  Vernon  (1843-1901).  S. 
T.  1902,  418. 

LINGLE,  RICHARD  W.— Orleans  (1838-1901).  S. 
T.  1902,  419. 

LINN,  TIMOTHY  T.— Bourbon  (1831-1896).  S.  T. 
1896,  273. 

LINNVILLE,  LEWIS  M.— Columbia  City  (1860- 
1896).     S.  T.  1896,  274. 

LINTON,  SAMUEL  M.— Columbus  (1809-1889).  S. 
T.  1890.  159.  Was  president  of  the  State  Society  in 
1864.     See  ob.,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  viii,  p.   180. 

LITTLE,  H.  A.— Linton  (1871-1899).  S.  T.  1900, 
329. 

LOMAX,  CONSTANTINE.— Marion  (1814-1884).  S. 
T.,  1885,  214. 

LOMAX,  WILLIAM.— Marion  (1813-1893).  S.  T. 
1893,  259.  Was  born  in  Guilford  county,  North  Caro- 
lina, March  15,  1813,  and  died  at  Marion  in  1893.  He 
was  a  graduate  of  the  University  of  New  York.  At  the 
beginning  of  the  Civil  War  he  was  appointed  surgeon 
of  the  Twelfth  Indiana  Infantry,  and  later,  medical 
director  of  the  Fifteenth  Army  Corps. 

He  was  elected  president  of  the  Indiana  State  Med- 
ical Society  in  1855  and  presided  in  1856.  In  1866, 
when  it  was  changed  into  a  delegated  body,  he  took  an 
active  part  in  the  plan  of  reorganization.  He  was  a 
faithful  attendant  at  the  sessions  of  the  society  and  a 
frequent  contributor  of  valuable  articles:  "Observa- 
tions of  Meteorological  Facts  in  Connection  with  Dis- 
eases," Trans.  1851,  7;  "Report  on  Surgery,"  1858,  23; 
"Responsibility  of  Physicians  and  the  Objects  and 
Duties  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society,"  1871,  97; 
"Two  Cases  of  Perityphlitis,"  1877,  91;  "A  Case  of 
Ovariotomy  and  Recovery,"  1880,  108 ;  "Injury  of  Head 
with  Fracture  of  Skull,"  1880,  134;  "Case  of  Delivery 
by  Embryotomy  Without  the  Use  of  Cutting  Instru- 
ments," 1882,  49;  "Chronic  Alcoholism,"  1885,  27. 


WILLIAM   LO^kLlX 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         301 

At  the  present  day,  when  the  term  "perityphlitis" 
has  given  way  to  "appendicitis,"  it  is  interesting  to 
tui-n  back  one-tliird  of  a  century  and  read  the  paper 
of  Dr.  Lomax  on  perityphlitis.  Briefly,  the  report  is  as 
follows:  In  September,  1874,  he  was  called  to  see  a 
j^oung  man  suffering  from  a  pain  in  the  "right  iliac 
ifossa."  He  died  in  great  pain  a  few  days  later.  Dec. 
30,  1875,  he  was  called  to  the  same  home  to  attend  a 
brother  of  the  deceased,  who  was  suffering  in  a  similar 
manner,  and  this  brother  died  on  the  fourteenth  day. 
A  post-mortem  examination  of  the  latter  revealed  "an 
abscess  beneath  the  cecum,  walled  in  by  adhesions." 
How  familiar  the  term,  v:alled  in  hy  adhesions  sounds  a 
third  of  a  century  after  Dr.  Lomax  penned  it !  He  says 
further:  "There  was  not  the  least  trace  of  appendix 
vermiformis  to  be  found,  nor  opening  in  the  intestine 
through  which  this  substance  could  have  forced  its 
way."  His  paper  is  interesting  as  showing  the  natural 
history  of  a  case  of  appendicitis. 

For  a  time  he  held  the  chair  of  surgery  in  the  Fort 
Wayne  Medical  College.  He  held  the  position  of  presi- 
dent of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Medical  College  of 
Indiana  for  several  years,  and  a  short  time  before  his 
death  made  a  gift  in  property  to  that  college  that  was 
valued  at  more  than  fifty  thousand  dollars. 

Dr.  Lomax  lived  and  died  a  true  type  of  a  noble 
physician  and  a  Christian  gentleman.  Stone,  284.  Also 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  373,  with  portrait,  and  Jour.  Am.  Med. 
Assoc,  Vol.  XX,  614.     E.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  11,  p.  26. 

LONG,  JEREMIAH  H.— Terre  Haute  (1821-1880). 
S.  T.,  1881,  237. 

LOVETT,  JOHN  A.— Goodland  (1839-1903).  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xxii,  123. 

LUMMIS,  JOSEPH  E.— Maxwell  (1866-1898).  S. 
T.  1899,  385. 

LYONS,  IRA  E.— Huntington  (1822-1898).  He 
located  in  Huntington  in  1861,  where  he  began  to  prac- 
tice, and  continued  until  the  date  of  his  death,  Feb.  7, 
1898.  He  was  for  some  time  a  member  of  the  faculty 
of   the   Fort   Wayne   College   of  Medicine,   first   filling 


302         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    ITSWIANA. 

tlie  chair  of  materia  medica  and  therapeutics,  and 
afterwards'  of  obstetrics.  He  was  a  native  of  New 
Castle,  Delaware. 

LYONS,  LEWIS  D.— Attica  (1816-1888).  S.  T.  1888, 
215. 

LYONS,  WILLIAM  B.— Huntington  (1818-1899). 
He  located  in  Huntington  in  1851  and  practiced  medi- 
cine there  until  his  death,  M^hich  occurred  from  being 
struck  by  an  engine  while  crossing  a  railroad  track, 
on  May  22,   1899. 

MACLEAN,  GEORGE  MACINTOSH.— New  Albany 
(1806-1886).  Dr.  Maclean  was  born  in  Princeton, 
N.  J.,  Feb.  19,  1806,  and  died  in  the  same  city  March 
8,  1886.  He  graduated  at  Princeton  University  in 
1824,  and  later  as  M.D.  from  the  College  of  Physicians 
and  Surgeons  of  New  York  in  1829.  He  began  prac- 
tice in  Princeton,  but  later,  1843-6,  practiced  in  New 
York  City.  About  the  first  of  the  year,  1848,  he 
located  in  New  Albany,  Indiana,  and  taught  chemis- 
try and  natural  history  in  Hanover  College,  Indiana, 
from  April  1848  to  April  1849. 

He  was  professor  of  chemistry  for  a  time  in  Cin- 
cinnati College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery.  Also  taught 
in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  Oxford,  Ohio,  as  well  as  in 
New  Albany.  In  1857  he  removed  to  Princeton,  and 
retired  from  active  professional  work. — Letter  from 
Miss  Caroline  Fitch  Maclean,  daughter,  Princeton, 
N.  J. 

He  contributed  two  papers  to  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Society:  "Report  on  the  Progress  of  Medical 
Chemistry,"  Trans.  1853,  58,  and  "Progress  in  Medical 
Chemistry,"  1854,  51.  Also  "Case  of  False  Ankylosis 
Successfully  Treated."  ib.  p.  102.— G.  W.  H.  K. 

McCAULEY,*  ROBERT.— Johnson  County  ( 1793- 
1842).     Born  near  Edinburg,  Scotland,  Aug.  22,  1793. 


*  I  am  sure  my  readers  will  forgive  me  for  this  rather 
lengthy  sketch.  Here  is  a  unique,  early-day  physician  who 
g^oes  "Doc  Sifers"  one  better.  Sifers  had  had  some  expe- 
rience : 

"Durin'  the  army — got  his  trade  o'  surgeon  there."  But 
"Dr."  McCauley,  like  Topsy,  "just  growed." — G.  W.  H.  K. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         303 

He  was  the  first  white  man  to  practice  the  healing 
art  in  Johnson  County, 

He  attended  a  boarding  school  in  Edinburg  for 
several  years,  and  obtained  a  good  education.  Some- 
times he  had  to  work  in  order  to  pay  his  board,  and 
in  consequence  of  this  necessity  he  learned  the  coop- 
er's trade.  He  was  also  an  athlete  and  became  a 
proficient  boxer.  He  came  to  America  when  18  years 
of  age,  and  traveled  from  place  to  place,  and  when 
in  need  replenished  his  purse  by  teaching  school.  In 
1822  he  came  to  Henry  County,  Kentucky.  Here  he 
fell  in  love  with  a  Miss  Banta,  and  they  were  mar- 
ried in  1824.  After  his  marriage  he  displayed  his 
adaptability  to  his  surroundings  by  working  for  two 
years  in  his  father-in-law's  distillery. 

In  October,  1826,  he  and  his  family  came  to  John- 
son County,  Indiana,  and  moved  into  a  little  unfin- 
ished cabin  about  five  miles  west  of  the  village  of 
Franklin — then  a  place  of  five  or  six  log  houses.  In 
this  whole  region  there  was  no  minister  of  the  healing 
art  and  McCauley  quickly  saw  the  needs  of  the  com- 
munity where  people  were  stricken  and  dying  with 
malaria,  so  he  immediately  assumed  the  task  of  car- 
ing for  their  physical  needs,  and  soon  gained  their 
confidence  by  self-assurance,  native  ability  and  the 
statement  that  he  was  a  graduate  of  the  University 
of  Edinburg.  The  popular  belief  in  the  truthfulness 
of  this  assertion  gave  him  much  prestige,  and  many 
were  the  cabin  hearth  stories  of  his  seven  years  of 
study  in  "the  old  country."  As  he  left  Scotland  in 
1811,  when  18  years  of  age,  those  interested  in  abso- 
lute historical  truth  can  readily  see  that  he  very 
likely  never  saw  the  inside  of  the  University  of  Edin- 
burg, at  least  not  in  the  serious  capacity  of  a  medical 
student. 

But  in  the  swamps  of  Johnson  County  the  people 
were  stricken  and  dying,  and  calling  for  help.  "Dr." 
McCauley  boldly  rode  to  their  relief  and  was  hailed 
with  joy.  He  was  needed  so  quickly  after  taking  up 
his  abode  in  the  wilderness,  that  he  had  no  time  to 
make  a  door  to  his  lonely  cabin.     In  lieu  of  a  wooden 


304         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

door  a  blanket  was  stretched  over  the  lintels  of  his 
doorway;  the  winds  of  winter  beat  against  it,  and  the 
wolves  sniffed  at  its  flimsy  folds,  while  within,  his 
wife  and  babies  trembled  with  fear. 

Soon  he  rode  miles  in  every  direction.  He  passed 
through  Franklin,  crossed  Sugar  Creek,  and  prac- 
ticed in  Shelby  County,  through  Edinburg  into  Bar- 
tholomew County,  along  Indian  Creek,  and  among  the 
bold  hills  and  wild  forests  of  Brown  County,  and  far 
westward  to  White  River.  He  sometimes  made  trips 
which  consumed  in  time  two  or  three  days.  He 
charged  very  little  and  collected  less.  His  neighbors 
for  a  mile  or  two  around  always  paid  their  bills  in 
work. 

He  died  Aug.  14,  1842,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
he  owned  nearly  five  hundred  acres  of  fertile  land,  but 
very  little  of  his  wealth  had  been  made  by  the  prac- 
tice  of  medicine. — Dr.  E.  W.   Terhune,   Whiteland. 

McClelland,  JAMES  S.— Crawfordsville  (1821- 
1875).  He  was  born  at  Oxford,  0.,  Sept.  3,  1821,  and 
died  at  Crawfordsville,  Aug.  29,  1875.  He  practiced 
medicine  at  the  following  named  places  in  Indiana: 
Yountsville,  Pleasant  Hill,  Jefferson,  and  Frankfort. 
Later  he  removed  to  Dallas,  Illinois.  In  1861,  he 
enlisted  in  the  Twenty-fifth  Regiment,  Illinois  Volun- 
teers, and  was  made  Lieutenant-Colonel.  Soon  after- 
ward was  appointed  medical  director  on  the  staff  of 
Gen.  Sigel,  in  Missouri.  Later  he  was  transferred  to 
the  Department  of  Tennessee,  and  made  inspector  of 
field  hospitals.  He  received  an  injury  in  August,  1863, 
on  account  of  which  he  was  mustered  out  of  service. 
He  then  located  in  Crawfordsville.  In  a  short  time, 
his  health  having  improved,  he  again  entered  the  ser- 
vice as  surgeon  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-fifth 
Regiment,  Indiana  Volunteers.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  he  resumed  the  practice  of  medicine  and  continued 
until  his  death.  He  represented  Clinton  County  in 
the  Legislature;  and  in  1856  was  a  Buchanan  elector. 
— Dr.  J.  L.  Beatty,  Crawfordsville. 


MEDICAL    HIHTOIiY    OF    I \ DIANA.         3()r, 

Dr.  McClelland  made  an  interesting  report  on 
"Trembles,  or  Milk  Sickness." — Trans.  1854,  43.  Was 
vice-president  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society, 
1853.— G.  W.  H.  K. 

McCLURE,  DAVID.— Jefifersonville  (1815-1896).  S. 
T.  1896,  268. 

McCLUPvE,  JESSE  D.— Jeffersonville  (1855-1885). 
S.  T.  1886,  206. 

McCOY,  WILLIAM  A.— Madison  (1843-1904).  S.  T. 
1904,  359. 

McCOY,   WILLIAM   X.— Jefifersonville    (1833-1892). 

S.  T.  1892,  291. 

Mcculloch,  james.— Muncie  (I813-1877). 

McCULLOUGH,  HOWARD.— Fort  Wayne  (1858- 
1892).    S.  T.  1892,  285. 

McDANIEL,  CORNELIUS  W.— Washington  (1823- 
1880).    S.  T.  1881,  232. 

McFADDEN,  WILLIAM  G.  —  Shelbyville  1834- 
1907).  A  native  of  Pennsylvania;  he  came  to  Indiana 
in  early  life.  He  began  practice  in  Shelby  county  in 
1856.  Was  commissioned  surgeon  of  the  Seventy-ninth 
Reg.  Ind,  Vols,  in  the  Civil  War.  In  the  battle  of 
Chickamauga  he  was  a  brigade  surgeon,  and  on  the 
second  day,  Sept.  20,  1863,  while  caring  for  wounded 
soldiers,  was  captured  and  taken  to  Libby  prison,  where 
he  remained  three  months.  After  the  war  he  located  in 
Shelbyville,  where  he  remained  in  active  practice  until 
a  short  time  previous  to  his  death,  which  occurred  at 
Daytona,  Fla.,  April  20,  1907.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxv, 
448. 

McGAUGHY,  ANDREW  J.— Linton  (1855-1904).  S. 
T.  1905,  453. 

McKINNEY,  GEORGE  W.— Marion  (1849-1902).  S. 
T.  1903,  348.  Twenty-five  years  before  his  death  he 
wrote  a  paper  in  which  he  claimed  the  identity  of  diph- 
theria and  croup. 

McKINSTRY,  JOHN  F.— Jonesboro  (1842-1882).  S. 
T.  1883,  271. 

McLEOD,  ANGUS  J.— Columbus  (1827-1898).  S. 
T.  1899,  384. 


306         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

McMAHAN,  SAMUEL  W.  — Indianapolis  (1847- 
1901).     S.  T.  1902,  420. 

McMEAHAN,  JAMES  G.  —  Crawfordsville  (1808- 
1899) .    I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xviii,  48. 

McNAEY,  CHARLES  E.— Fillmore  (1841-1880).  S. 
T.  1881,  234. 

McPHEETERS,  JOHN  G.  —  Bloomington  (1811- 
1888).     S.  T.  1888,  212. 

McSHANE,  JOHN  T.— Indianapolis  (1847-1907).  S. 
T.  1907,  502.  Dr.  McShane  practiced  his  profession  for 
about  sixteen  years  in  Indianapolis.  He  had  achieved 
success,  and  stood  high  as  a  practitioner  and  citizen. 
He  was  a  frequent  contributor  to  medical  journals.  See 
Stone,  310,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxv,  498.    Portrait  same  page. 

McSHIRLEY,  JAMES  L.— Sulphur  Springs  (1860- 
1906).     S.  T.  1907,  485. 

MALONE,  JOHN  A.— Princeton  (1837-1893).  S.  T. 
1893,  257. 

MAPES,  SMITH  H.— Indianapolis  (1840-1901).  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  317. 

MARKLE,  JOHN  E.— Winchester  (1838-1903).  He 
was  a  practitioner  of  medicine  in  Winchester  from  1874 
until  his  death.  During  the  Civil  War  was  2nd  lieut. 
and  promoted  to  1st  lieut.,  Co.  K,  of  the  Thirty-fourth 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols.     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxi,  483. 

MARR,  DELOS  D.— Chesterton  (1852-1889).  S.  T. 
1890,  156. 

MARSEE,  JOSEPH  W.— Indianapolis  (1848-1898). 
S.  T.  1899,  399.  Dr.  Marsee  ranked  with  the  great  sur- 
geons of  the  country.  He  was  an  excellent  anatomist, 
and  this  knowledge,  combined  with  rare  mechanical 
tact,  made  him  eminently  skilful  as  a  surgeon.  He  was 
preeminently  a  teacher  and  lecturer.  He  was  not  dis- 
posed to  write  much,  but  what  he  did  was  practical. 
On  Feb.  11,  1896,  he  delivered  an  informal  address 
before  the  Marion  County  Medical  Society,  which  was 
published  in  the  Indiana  Medical  Journal,  Vol.  xiv, 
349,  entitled  "The  Treatment  of  Common  Injuries  of 
the  Hand."  This  article  is  well  illustrated,  and  is  still 
read  with  interest  at  the  present  day.    In  1894  he  read 


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a  paper  before  the  State  Medical  Society,  "A  Contribu- 
tion to  the  Treatment  of  Fractures  of  the  Femur," 
Trans.  1884,  194.  For  some  years  previous  to  his  death 
he  was  professor  of  surgery  and  dean  of  the  Medical 
College  of  Indiana.  He  had  also  filled  other  positions 
in  the  college  and  city  hospitals.  For  biographical 
sketch  see  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvii,  225.  Drs.  Wynn  and 
Morrison  pay  a  beautiful  tribute  to  his  memory  in 
Transactions  for  1899,  399-400. 


JOSEPH  W.  MAESEE. 


MARSHALL,  DANIEL  M.— Columbia  City  (1823- 
1892).  S.  T.  1893,  250.  Dr.  Marshall  left  one  son  who 
is  the  present  governor  cf  our  state,  Thomas  R.  Mar- 
shall. 

MARTIN,  JOHN  H.  L.— Arcadia  (1850-1885).  S. 
T.  1886,  208. 


308         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

MAETIN,  SAIMUEL  M.— Greenfield  (1842-1897). 
Was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War.  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvi,  32. 

MASON,  CHARLES  R.— Hartford  City  (1846-1906). 
S.  T.  1906,  490. 

MAVITY,  JAMES  S.— Fowler  (1845-1901).  S.  T. 
1901,  491.     I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  486. 

MAXWELL,  JAMES  D.,  Sr.— Bloomington  (1815- 
1892).  S.  T.  1894,  214.  Dr.  Maxwell  was  in  practice 
at  Bloomington  for  nearly  fifty  years.  He  was  a  trus- 
tee of  Indiana  University  for  nearly  forty  years,  and 
rendered  valuable  service  to  the  cause  of  general  educa- 
tion. See  Robson,  142;  Stone,  657.  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi, 
119.  Was  present  at  the  State  Medical  Convention, 
June  6,  1849. 

MAXWELL,  JAMES  D.,  Jr.— Bloomington  (1850- 
1891).     S.  T.  1891,  282. 

MAY,  OLIVER  T.— Monroeville  (1863-1903).  S.  T. 
1903,  349. 

MAY,  WILLIS  L.— Crawfordsville  (1828-1900).  S. 
T.  1901,  492. 

MAYER,  CARL  F.— Fort  Wayne  (1830-1885).  S. 
T.  1886,  197. 

MEARS,  GEORGE  W.— Indianapolis  (1803-1879). 
S.  T.  1880,  234.  Dr.  Mears  was  born  at  Harrisburg, 
Pa.,  June  27,  1803.  Graduated  from  Jefl'erson  Medical 
College  in  1827,  and  same  year  located  at  Vincennes, 
where  he  remained  until  1834,  when  he  removed  to 
Indianapolis.  In  1849  he  was  elected  professor  of  ob- 
stetrics and  diseases  of  women  in  the  Central  Medical 
College,  which  at  that  time  was  the  medical  department 
of  Asbury  University.  In  1869  he  was  elected  to  the 
same  chair  in  the  Indiana  Medical  College  and  later 
became  emeritus  professor  of  the  same  chair,  which  he 
retained  until  his  death,  May  20,  1879. 

Dr.  Mears  was  present  at  the  formation  of  the  state 
society  in  1849.  He  was  faithful  in  attendance  at 
its  meetings  and  was  elected  president  of  the  society 
in  1851.  He  contributed  a  number  of  papers  of  marked 
value :  "Report  on  the  Duration  of  Pregnancy"  ( in  con- 
nection with  Dr.  Lomax),  Trans.  1851,  31;  "President's 


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310         3IEDICAL    HI8T0BY    OF    IXDIANA.    . 

Address,"  1852,  21;  "Placenta  Prsevia,"  1868,  100; 
"Essay  on  the  Treatment  of  Puerperal  Hemorrhage,*' 
1870,  25;  "Biographical  Sketch  of  John  S.  Bobbs, 
M.D.,"  1871,  211;  "Treatment  of  Puerperal  Eclampsia," 
1876,  54;  and  "On  the  Etiology  and  Treatment  of  Un- 
avoidable Hemorrhage,"  Trans.  1878,  102.  See  Trans. 
1893,  23. 

MEEKER,  DANIEL.  —  Laporte  (1806-1876).  Dr. 
Meeker  was  elected  president  of  the  State  Medical 
Society  in  1856,  and  presided  in  1857.  He  contributed 
an  article  to  the  society,  "Report  on  Diseases  of  the 
Eye,"  Trans.  1856,  53;  "President's  Address,"  Trans. 
1857,  57.  He  also  contributed  three  valuable  articles  on 
"Fractures  and  False  Joints,"  respectively.  Transac- 
tions, 1857,  29;  1858,  40;  and  1859,  34.  He  was  a  sur- 
geon of  no  mean  standing.  In  later  life  he  Avent  off 
after  strange  gods,  publishing  in  1871  a  pamphlet  of 
fourteen  pages  on  "Prof.  Meeker's  Opium  Cure — A  Cer- 
tain and  Safe  Remedy  for  the  Opium  Habit."  This 
pamphlet  led  to  his  expulsion  from  the  State  Medical 
Society  in  1871 — Trans.  1871,  230.  He  was  surgeon  of 
the  Ninth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  (three  months)  and  later, 
for  a  short  time,  surgeon  of  the  same  in  the  three 
years'  service. 

MEGEE,  WILLIAIVI  N.— Rushville  (1859-1900).  S. 
T.  1900,  331. 

MELSHEIMER,  C.  T.— Bluffton  (1819-1887).  S.  T. 
1888,  205.  Was  assistant  surgeon  of  the  101st  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols. 

MENDENHALL,  ELIHU  T.— Newcastle  (1844- 
1908).  Practiced  medicine  in  Henry  County  for 
thirty-four  years.     Was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War. 

MENDENHALL,  NATHAN.— Thorntown  ( 1831- 
1880).     S.  T.  1881,  236.     R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  9,  p.  19. 

MENDENHALL,  WILLIAM  0.— Richmond  (1834- 
1905).     S.  T.  1906,  504. 

MERCER,  THOMAS  C— Jeffersonville  (1819-1884). 
S.  T.  1884,  222. 

METCALF,  CHARLES  N.  —  Indianapolis  (1846- 
1896).      S.   T.    1896,  269.     Dr.  Metcalf  was  appointed 


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secretary  of  the  Indiana  State  Board  of.  Health  in  1883, 
and  filled  that  position  until  his  resignation,  May  1, 
1896.  He  was  quite  a  contributor  to  medical  journals. 
R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  7,  p.  143. 

MILLER,  ABRAAI  0.— Lebanon  (1827-1901).  S.  T. 
1901,  493.  Quite  a  number  of  times  the  writer  has  seen 
Dr.  Miller  under  fire.  He  was  colonel  of  the  Seventy- 
second  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  and  much  of  the  time  com- 
manded the  famous  Wilder's  Brigade  of  Mounted  In- 
fantry. He  entered  the  service  quite  early  and  remained 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  At  Selma,  Ala.,  he  received 
a  dangerous  wound,  but  was  not  discharged  until  the 
war  had  ended.  For  his  gallant  military  service  he  was 
breveted  brigadier  general.  He  was  a  good  man,  a  good 
physician,  and  a  patriot.  He  deserves  a  shaft  as  high 
as  Bunker  Hill  monument. 

MILLM AN,  JOHX  H.— Washington  (1845-1881).  S. 
T.  1882,  199. 

MINICH,  JAIVIES  A.— Worthington  (1831-1897).  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  XV,  341. 

MITCHEL,  JAMES  F.— Vernon  (1837-18..),  was 
born  in  Jennings  County,  Ind..  Dee.   14,   1837. 

He  was  graduated  from  the  Ohio  Medical  College  in 
March,  1860,  and  continued  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession until  the  day  of  his  death.  He  was  of  an  amica- 
ble disposition,  never  coarse  nor  cross,  remarkably  free 
from  fretting  and  stewing,  polite  in  his  deportment, 
never  glorying  in  sin  or  shame.  He  carried  his  refine- 
ment of  manhood  with,  him  in  his  professional  visits 
and  was  a  favorite  among  the  people.  When  I  say  that 
Dr.  Mitchel  was  a  justly  esteemed  and  valuable  citizen, 
I  only  utter  what  many  lips  are  ready  to  repeat.  When 
I  say  that  he  was  a  success  in  his  profession  his  numer- 
ous patrons  are  ready  to  emphasize  the  testimony.  The 
members  of  the  profession  are  ready  to  bear  testimony 
to  his  honorable  observance  of  the  rules  of  etiquette 
belonging  to  the  profession. 

He  was  always  loyal  to  the  cause  of  medicine  in  all 
that  tended  to  its  uplifting  in  society  work  and  all  that 
pertained  to  it. — Dr.  Walter  J.  Mitchel,  Vernon,  a  son. 


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MITCHELL,  GILES  B.— Mooresville  (1822-188Q).  S. 
T.  1881,  239. 

MITCHELL,  HARVEY.— Muncie  (1825-1909). 

MODPJCKER,  JOHN  M.— Wabash  (1833-1907).  S. 
T.  1907,  493. 

MOFFETT,  JOHN.— Rushville  (1822-1903).  S.  T. 
1903,  350.  After  thorough  preparation,  Dr.  Moffett 
located  in  Rushville  in  1850,  where  he  remained  and 
practiced  medicine  for  fifty-three  years.  In  1879.  at  the 
formation  of  the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons of  Indianapolis,  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  ol 
principles  of  medicine,  and  at  the  end  of  three  yeara 
was  transferred  to  the  chair  of  obstetrics,  which  he 
filled  until  March,  1887,  when  he  resigned.  He  was 
acting  president  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society 
in  1864.  He  contributed  a  number  of  papers  to  the 
state  society:  "Report  on  the  Progress  of  Medicine," 
Trans.  1862,  47;  "President's  Address,"  Trans.  1864, 
13;  "Cerebrospinal  Meningitis,"  Trans.  1867,  108;  and 
"General  Anasarca — A  Case  with  Remarks,"  Trans. 
1869,  15.    See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxi,  530. 

MONTGOMERY,  DAVID  B.  —  Cynthiana  (1834- 
1885).     S.  T.  1886,  203. 

MOODEY,  JOHN  W.— Greensburg  (1816-1867).  Was 
born  in  Shippensburg,  Pa.,  June  12,  1816,  and  died 
Aug.  27,  1867.  He  located  in  Greensburg  in  1839,  and 
remained  there  until  his  death.  He  was  present  at  the 
formation  of  the  State  Medical  Society,  June  6,  1849, 
and  his  name  appears  often  in  the  Transactions.  He 
was  a  skilful  physician,  a  good  citizen,  and  a  perfect 
gentleman.  He  was  my  generous  friend,  and  I  was  a 
student  in  his  office  in  April,  1861,  when  the  Civil  War 
commenced,  and  the  storm  clouds  swept  me  into  the 
conflict. 

MOONEY,  HENRY  C.—Laketon  (1850-1905).  S.  T. 
1905,  454. 

MOORE,  CHARLES  V.— Fairmount  (1849-1897).  S. 
T.  1897,  359. 

MOORE,  JOHN  B.— Kokomo  (1841-1906).  S.  T. 
1907,  486. 


314         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

MOORE,  RICHARD  S.— Mt.  Vernon  (1843-1881).  S. 
T.  1882,  200. 

MORGAN,  RALPH  G.— Indianapolis  ( 1873-1903) .  S. 
T.  1903,  351. 

MORGAX,  ROBERT  H.  —  Spartansburg  (1827- 
1884).  S.  T.  1884,  220.  He  was  a  captain  of  Company 
D,  Eighth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  and  later  first  lieutenant  of 
Company  D,  Fifty-seventh  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

MORGAN,  SAMUEL  B.  —  Crawfordsville  (1813- 
1886).     S.  T.  1887,  188. 

MORGAN,  WILLIAM  V.  —  Indianapolis  (1853- 
1900).  S.  T.  1901,  494.  Dr.  Morgan  first  practiced  in 
Indianapolis,  then  removed  to  Julietta,  and  in  1887 
returned  to  Indianapolis.  He  was  appointed  professor 
of  anatomy  in  the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  of  Indianapolis.  Later  he  became  professor 
of  surgical  anatomy,  fractures  and  dislocations,  in  the 
same  college,  resigning  his  chair  in  1899.  He  was  rap- 
idly rising  into  distinction  as  a  surgeon,  when  death 
untimely  ended  his  career.  See  Stone,  661,  and  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xix,  164. 

MOTHERSHEAD,  JOHN  L.— Indianapolis  (1808- 
1854).  S.  T.  1855,  76.  He  was  a  charter  member  of 
the  state  society.  He  was  born  at  Stamping  Ground, 
Scott  county,  Ky.,  Jan.  6,  1808,  and  came  to  Indian- 
apolis in  1830.  He  was  president  of  the  Board  of 
Health,  and  during  the  Black  Hawk  war  was  assistant 
surgeon  of  the  Indiana  Battalion.  He  died  at  Indian- 
apolis, Nov.  4,  1854. — J.  L.  Mothershead,  a  son. 

MULLANE,  JOSEPH.— Lyons  (1856-1898).  S.  T. 
1899,  394. 

MULLEN,  ALEXANDER  J.— Napoleon  (1813-1897). 
Was  born  in  Ireland  in  1813,  and  when  a  mere  child 
came  to  America  with  his  parents  and  settled  in  Penn- 
sylvania. When  he  was  old  enough  he  ran  away  from 
home  and  shipped  as  a  boy  in  the  Merchant  Marine 
service.  In  the  early  days  Merchant  vessels  conducted 
a  training  school,  requiring  so  many  hours  a  day  for 
study.  The  Doctor  there  received  his  first  instruction 
in   medicine,    and   after   nine   vears   of   service   he  for- 


MEDICAL    HLSTORY    OF    IXDIAXA.         315 

sook  the  sea  and  took  up  the  study  of  medicine  at  tlie 
Louisville  Medical  College,  where  he  graduated  in  1838. 
He  hegan  the  practice  of  medicine  at  Marion,  Indiana., 
then  moved  to  Xapoleon,  where  he  had  quite  a  large 
class  studying  under  him,  among  them  his  brother 
Bernard  F.  Mullen,  Dr.  Glass  and  J.  W.  Gordon,  who 
afterwards  gave  up  the  study  of  medicine  and  became 
one  of  the  most  famous  lawyers  of  the  state.  From 
Napoleon  he  went  to  Michigan  City  and  was  appointed 
Prison  Physician.  When  the  war  broke  out  he  moved 
his  family  to  Madison  and  joined  the  35th  Irish 
Regiment  and  became  surgeon.  After  spending  over 
thirty  years  in  the  Hoosier  state  he  moved  his  family 
to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  and  while  not  altogether  forsaking 
the  practice  of  medicine,  he  spent  a  great  deal  of  his 
time  in  traveling  through  the  western  part  of  the 
country,  and  in  1887,  took  an  extended  European  trip 
visiting  hospitals  of  the  old  country  and  performing 
several  successful  operations  while  there.  He  died  at 
his  home  in  St.  Louis,  September  25,  1897. — Miss  Cora 
E.  Mullen,  Madison,  Niece. 

Dr.  Mullen  was  present  at  the  State  Medical  Con- 
vention, June  6,  1849.  Three  of  the  Mullen  brothers 
were  present  at  this  Convention. — G.  W.  H.  K. 

MULLEX,  BERNARD  F.— Napoleon  (1825-1879). 
Was  born  at  Mt.  Joy,  Pennsylvania,  in  1825,  and 
received  his  early  education  in  the  parochial  schools. 
At  an  early  age  he  went  to  Napoleon,  Indiana,  and 
joined  a  class  of  students  who  were  studying  medicine 
under  his  eldest  brother,  Dr.  Alexander  Mullen.  His 
early  medical  days  were  passed  between  Napoleon  and 
Madison,  where  his  brother  Dr.  John  Mullen  had 
located.  Dr.  Bernard  was  quite  successful  in  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine,  making  children's  diseases  a  specialty ; 
and  he  also  gained  a  reputation  in  his  profession  dur- 
ing the  cholera  epidemic  of  1849.  At  the  call  for 
troops  during  the  Mexican  War,  J.  W.  Gordon  and  Dr. 
B.  F.  Mullen  raised  a  company  at  Napoleon — Gordon 
being  made  captain  and  Mullen,  surgeon.  He  was  the 
youngest  surgeon  serving  in  the  American  army.  This 
company    was    afterwards    attached    to    the    3rd    Ohio. 


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During  the  first  of  the  Rebellion,  Dr.  Bernard  Mullen 
was  located  in  the  timber  country  between  Osgood  and 
Napoleon,  and  when  the  call  for  volunteers  was  issued 
was  made  Colonel  of  the  35th  Regiment  Indiana  Infan- 
try. For  several  years  after  the  war  he  resided  in 
Madison,  but  afterwards  located  in  Terre  Haute, 
where  he  stood  high  in  social  and  professional  life. 
He  was  a  man  of  the  most  varied  accomplishments:  a 
soldier,  politician,  musician,  a  writer  of  more  than 
ordinary  ability,  and  an  orator  of  the  greatest  bril- 
liancy and  power.  During  the  early  days  of  the  Know 
Nothings,  Dr.  Mullen  fought  them  openly  from  the 
speaker's  stand.  He  was  one  of  the  Commissioners 
that  located  the  State  Prison  at  Michigan  City,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  a  candidate  for  State  Librar- 
ian. He  was  taken  ill  at  a  hotel  at  Indianapolis,  where 
he  died  February  6,  1879.  His  remains  were  taken 
charge  of  by  the  G.  A.  R.  and  were  laid  to  rest  at 
Terre  Haute. — Miss  Cora  E.  Mullen,  Napoleon,  Niece. 
Dr.  Mullen  was  present  at  the  State  Medical  Con- 
vention, June  6,  1849.     G.  W.  H.  K. 

MULLEN,  JOHN  W.— Madison  (1821-1887).  Was 
born  in  Mount  Joy,  Pennsylvania,  in  1821.  When 
quite  a  boy,  he  went  to  Texas  and  served  as  a  page 
under  Gen.  Sam  Houston  during  the  war  between  the 
Lone  Star  State  and  Mexico.  During  this  campaign 
he  had  the  misfortune  to  be  taken  down  with  yellow 
fever  and  was  faithfully  nursed  by  one  of  the  men 
until  he  was  supposed  to  have  died.  Around  his  belt 
he  had  concealed  about  $1,250  of  Texas  script.  The 
nurse  took  $1,000  of  this  and  left  a  note  with  the 
remaining  $250  for  the  person  who  would  bury  him. 
The  doctor  often  told  this  experience  in  demonstrat- 
ing that  life  was  not  always  extinct  when  supposed  to 
be.  Becoming  tired  of  Texas  he  returned  to  Philadel- 
phia and  entered  the  Pennsylvania  University;  gradu- 
ated in  medicine  with  honors,  and  was  elected  intern 
for  two  years  at  the  Philadelphia  City  Hospital. 
Through  the  importunities  of  his  friends  and  class- 
mates he  was  induced  to  come  to  Indiana,  and  in  1847 
located    at   Madison.      Early    in    the    fifties    Dr.    John 


MEDICAL    EIHTORY    OF    IXDIA^A.         317 

Mullen,  with  five  other  leading  physicians  of  the  city, 
obtained  a  charter  from  the  State  Legislature  for  a 
medical  school  to  be  known  as  The  Madison  Medical 
Institute,  and  in  a  two-story  frame  building  on  the 
corner  of  East  and  Third  Streets,  commenced  to  give 
lectures  to  a  class  of  students  in  Madison.  A  brick 
cottage  to  the  north  was  used  as  a  dissecting  room. 
The  demands  of  private  practice  were  so  great  that 
the  doctors  found  it  impossible  to  keep  all  their  lec- 
ture engagements,  and  the  students  becoming  discour- 
aged concluded  to  go  to  the  University  of  Louisville. 
The  school-room  was  turned  into  a  hospital, — the  first 
one  ever  established  in  Madison — and  the  brick  cottage 
was  converted  into  a  pest  house.  Up  to  the  time  of  his 
death,  Dr.  John  Mullen  took  a  lively  interest  in  the 
advancement  of  his  chosen  profession  of  medicine,  and 
kept  himself  well  read  in  the  science  of  that  profession, 
often  being  called  into  consultation  in  cases  where 
experience  and  sound  advice  were  needed.  He  was 
regarded  as  one  of  the  best  surgeons  of  the  state,  and 
performed  some  of  the  most  diflBcult  operations.  He 
died  at  his  home  in  Madison,  May  10,  1887. — Miss 
Cora  E.  Mullen,  Madison,  Daughter. 

Dr.  Mullen  was  present  at  the  State  Medical  Con- 
vention, June  6,  1849.— G.  W.  H.  K. 

MULLINIX,  M.  G.— Spencer  (1827-1886).  S.  T. 
1887,  193.    Was  surgeon  of  the  149th  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

MUNFORD,  SAMUEL  E.— Princeton  (1837-1893). 
S.  T.  1894,  219.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier  in  the 
Seventeenth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  early  in  1861;  was  then 
appointed  hospital  steward,  and  served  as  such  until 
Aug.  13,  1861,  when  he  was  appointed  assistant  sur- 
geon of  the  same  regiment,  and  served  until  Feb.  5, 
1862,  when  he  was  promoted  to  surgeon.  On  the  forma- 
tion of  Wilder's  Brigade  of  mounted  infantry  he  was 
appointed  acting  brigade  surgeon,  and  served  as  such 
until  Jan.  12,  1865.  He  was  elected  president  of  the 
State  Medical  Society  in  1883.  To  the  state  society  he 
contributed  the  following  papers:  "Case  of  Hydrocele, 
with  Cartilaginous  Thickening  of  the  Tunica  Vagi- 
nalis," Trans.   1872,  7;   "Cases  of  Injury  to  the  Head, 


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MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         319 

with  Remarks  Thereon,"  Trans.  1883,  110;  "Presi- 
dent's Address — A  Question  in  State  Medicine,"  Trans. 
1884,  1 ;  "Repair  of  Injuries  of  the  Pelvic  Floor," 
Trans.  1892,  131.  See  Robson,  101,  Stone,  348,  and  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xii,  103.  For  three  years  I  was  associated 
with  Dr.  Munford.  in  army  life,  and  I  loved  him  as 
Jonathan  loved  David. 

MURPHY,  PIERSON.— Franklin  (1800-1864).  Born 
in  Fairfield  Co.,  Ohio,  in  1800.  Graduate  of  the  Ohio 
Medical  College  in  1827,  and  the  same  year  located 
at  Franklin,  which  at  that  date  consisted  of  some 
half  dozen  families  living  in  log  houses.  He  was  the 
second  physician  to  locate  in  Johnson  County.  He 
encountered  the  usual  hardships  of  the  early,  and  the 
young  physician,  of  primitive  days  in  Indiana. 

In  1828,  Dr.  Murphy,  assisted  by  Dr.  Smith,  of 
Edinburg,  performed  paracentesis  abdominalis  by  mak- 
ing an  incision  into  the  abdominal  cavity  with  a 
thumb  lancet.  Then  having  removed  the  bark  and 
pith  from  a  small  elder,  this  crude  contrivance  was 
used  to  draw  off  the  fluid. 

Dr.  Murphy  practiced  over  a  vast  extent  of  terri- 
tory, and,  although  his  charges  were  nominal,  ac- 
quired considerable  wealth.  He  died  in  1864. — 
Abridged  from  letter  from  Dr.  R.  W.  Terhune,  White- 
land,   Ind. 

MURRAY,  ALFRED  L.— Eaton  (1845-1906).  S.  T. 
1907,  479.     Was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War. 

MYERS,  WILLIAM  H.— Fort  Wayne  (1826-1907). 
S.  T.  1907,  471.  Dr.  Myers  located  in  Fort  Wayne  in 
1859,  and  during  all  his  active  professional  life  was 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  surgeons  of  northern 
Indiana.  In  the  spring  of  1861  he  entered  the  service 
as  surgeon  of  the  Thirtieth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  and  served 
as  such  for  a  number  of  months.  After  leaving  the 
service  he  resumed  practice  in  Fort  Wayne.  To  the 
state  society  he  contributed  a  paper  on  "Shock,"  Trans. 
1883,  138;  also  "Ganglions,  with  Suggestions  on  Treat- 
ment," Trans.  1885,  180.  Dr.  Myers  was  honored  by 
his  professional  brethren.  I.  M,  J.,  Vol.  xxv,  332,  449. 
He   performed   the    first   Porro   operation   in    Indiana, 


WILLIAM  H.  MYERS. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         321 

saving  mother  and  child.    Am.  Jour,  of  Obs.,  Vol.  xxvi, 
p.  933. 

NASH,  GEORGE  W.— Indianapolis  (1835-1903).  S. 
T.  1904,  360. 

NESBIT,  JOSEPH  A.— Allisonville  (1821-1895).  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xiv,  177. 

NEW,  GEORGE  W.— Indianapolis  (1819-1891).  S. 
T.  1891,  286.  Dr.  New  graduated  at  the  Ohio  Medical 
College  in  1840,  and  immediately  located  at  Greens- 
burg,  where  he  remained  nineteen  years,  and  then  re- 
moved to  Indianapolis.  He  was  surgeon  of  the  Seventh 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  from  1861  to  1864.  In  November,  1864, 
was  sent  by  Governor  Morton  to  New  Orleans  as  mili- 
tary agent  for  Indiana.  For  two  years  following  the 
termination  of  the  war  he  was  examiner  of  drugs  in 
the  New  Orleans  Custom  House.  Resolutions,  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  ix,  250. 

NEWCOMER,  FRISBY  S.  —  Indianapolis  (1828- 
1889).  S.  T.  1890,  157.  Dr.  Newcomer  was  a  native  of 
Hagerstown,  Maryland,  and  a  graduate  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Pennsylvania.  He  took  up  microscopy  in  mid- 
dle life,  and  became  an  expert  in  that  art.  During  the 
Civil  War  Dr.  Newcomer  was  in  the  government  serv- 
ice in  Indianapolis,  and  for  six  years  physician  to  the 
Deaf  and  Dumb  Institute.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
was  contract  surgeon  to  the  U.  S.  arsenal  at  Indian- 
apolis. 

NEWLAND,  BENJAMIN.  —  Bedford  ( 1821-1889 ) . 
S.  T.  1889,  216.  Dr.  Newland  was  acting  president  of 
che  State  Medical  Society  in  1879,  Dr.  Louis  Humph- 
reys having  resigned  as  president,  Dr.  Newland,  vice- 
president,  took  his  place.  At  that  meeting  Dr.  New- 
land  delivered  an  address,  "The  Relations  of  Lesis- 
lation  to  Sanitary  Protection,"  Trans.  1879,  1.  He 
was  a  surgeon  in  the  Civil  War,  Twentv-second  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols. 

NEWLAND,  JAMES  H.— Valparaiso  (1820-1889). 
S.  T.  1890,  152. 

NEWTON,  WILIAM  T.— Indianapolis  (1854-1900). 
S.  T.  1901,  495.     At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  fill- 


322         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    nWIAWA. 

ing  the  chair  of  materia  medica  and  therapeutics  in 
the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons. 

XIERMAN,  HERMAN  G.— Fort  Wayne  (1870- 
1909).     Jour.  Ind.  State  Med.  Assoc,  Vol.  2,  82. 

NIMAN,  CHARLES  H.— Elkhart  (1855-1904).  S. 
T.  1905,  455. 

NIMAN,  JONAS  P.— Lagrange  (1828-1888).  S.  T. 
1889,  209. 

NOBLE,  THOMAS  B.,  Sr.— Greenwood  (1827-1907). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  XXV,  410. 

NOLAND,  STACY  T.— Delphi  (1845-1887).  S.  T. 
1888,  217. 

NORTH,  EUGENE  B.— Peru  (1854-1887).  S.  T. 
1888,  203. 

O'FERRALL,  ROBERT  M.— Lafayette  (1826-1896). 
S.  T.  1897,  351.  Dr.  O'Ferrall  was  vice-president  Of 
the  State  Medical  Society  in  1859.  For  a  few  months 
he  was  surgeon  of  the  Fortieth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  He 
was  loved  and  respected  by  his  fellow-men.  I  M.  J., 
Vol.  XV,  295. 

O'REAR,  CHARLES  D.— Jamestown  (1839-1884). 
S.  T.  1884,  216. 

OLIVER,  DANDRIDGE  H.  —  Indianapolis  (1826- 
1895).  S.  T.  1895,  410.  See  sketch,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xiii, 
386.     Portrait,  ib.  facing  p.  371. 

OMO,  JOSEPH  H.— Harlan  (1832-1898).  S.  T. 
1899,  396. 

OWEN,  ABRAHAM  M.— Evansville  (1849-1898). 
S.  T.  1899,  392.  Dr.  Owen  was  one  of  the  leading  sur- 
geons of  Evansville,  occupying  the  chair  of  surgery  dur- 
ing the  existence  of  the  Medical  College  of  Evansville 
in  that  institution.     See  Robson,  533,  and  Stone,  360. 

PARODY,  EZRA  FITCH.— Vernon  (1789-1871).  Dr. 
Pabody  was  born  at  New  Lebanon,  N.  Y.,  June  20, 
1789.  He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of  John  Alfien  and 
Priscilla  Mullins,  the  story  of  whose  courtship  and 
marriage  is  immortalized  by  Longfellow  in  "The 
Courtship   of  Miles   Standish."     William  Pabody,   the 


MEDICAL    HIHTORY    OF   INDIANA.         323 

fifth  grandfather  of  Dr.  E.  F.  Pabody,  was  married 
to  Elizabeth,  oldest  daughter  of  John  Alden  and  Pris- 
cilla  Mullins,  Dec.  2G,   1644. 

Dr.  Pabody,  having  completed  his  medical  educa- 
tion at  an  early  age,  served  as  "Surgeon's  Mate"  in  a 
regiment  stationed  at  Long  Island  during  the  war  of 
1812.  Soon  after  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Dr. 
Doubleday,  of  Binghampton,  N.  Y.,  where  he  remained 
until  the  year  1818,  when  he  removed  to  Vernon,  Jen- 
nings County,  Indiana,  and  again  entered  on  the  prac- 
tice of  medicine.  For  years  he  was  the  only  physician 
in  Jennings  and  some  of  the  adjoining  counties.  His 
circuit  extended  through  an  unbroken  forest  over  so 
large  a  scope  of  country  as  to  require  a  tour  of  sev- 
eral  days   in   order   to   visit   all   his   patients. 

On  Oct.  15,  1820,  Dr.  Pabody  was  married  to  Mabel 
Butler,  oldest  daughter  of  Rev.  Chauncey  Butler  and 
Demia   Butler. 

Dr.  Pabody  organized  the  first  Sunday  School  and 
the  first  Temperance  Society  in  Jennings  County  and 
to  the  day  of  his  death  was  deeply  interested  in  the 
cause  of  religion,  education  and  temperance. 

Dr.  Pabody  served  three  terms  as  a  member  of  the 
Indiana  Legislature,  and  served  as  Judge  of  Probate 
and  Common  Pleas  Courts  from  1842  to  1856.  He 
died  at  his  home  in  Vernon,  Feb.  3,  1871,  aged  81 
years  and  8  months. — Dr.  W.  H.  Stemm,  North 
Vernon. 

PALMITER,  CLEBRON.— Ligonier  (1819-1889).  S. 
T.    1890,   151. 

PARKER,  JOSEPH.— Colfax  (1849-1897).  S.  T 
1897,  364. 

PARR,  JOHN  N.— Jolietville  (1837-1909).  Dr. 
Parr  was  a  native  of  Boone  County,  in  which  he 
spent  nearly  all  of  his  life. 

PARR,  THOMAS  E.— Jolietville  (1871-1900).  S. 
T.,  1900,  332. 

PARRY,  CHARLES.— Indianapolis  (1814-1861).  S. 
T.  1862,  49.     Dr.  Parry  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  and 


324         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

after  receiving  his  medical  degree  located  in  Camden, 
N.  J.  Upon  the  advice  of  his  uncle,  Hon.  0.  H.  Smith, 
he  came  west  and  located  in  Connersville,  where  he 
remained  about  two  years.  Later  (1839)  he  removed 
to  Indianapolis,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his 
death.  He  possessed  a  high  degree  of  skill  as  a  sur- 
geon and  obstetrician.     In  the  July  number,  Vol.  vi, 

28,  of  the  Am.  Jour,  of  the  Med.  Sciences,  is  an  article 
from  the  pen  of  Dr.  Parry  entitled  "Congestive  Fever; 
Its  Character,  Symptoms  and  Treatment,  as  Met  with 
in  Central  Indiana."  This  article  was  a  valuable  con- 
tribution to  the  subject  of  malarial  disorders,  so  com- 
mon in  Indiana,  and  was  quoted  by  Dr.  George  B. 
Wood,  Vol.  i,  306  (1858),  in  his  great  work  on  the 
practice  of  medicine. 

Dr.  P.  H.  Jameson  says:  "Dr.  Parry,  when  quite 
young,  performed  a  bold  and  successful  operation,  by 
which  he  relieved  a  victim  of  bad  surgery  of  a  crook 
in  his  leg.  He  exsected  a  part  of  the  shaft  of  the  bone 
and  brought  the  limb  in  line,  when  the  fragments 
united  and  the  leg  was  much  improved.  Professor 
Mutter,  in  1849,  referred  to  this  operation  as  brilliant 
and  successful,  but  added  to  the  class  of  Jefferson  stu- 
dents Avhom  he  addressed:  'Young  gentlemen,  I  cannot 
advise  you  to  attempt  it,  as  you  might  not  succeed  as 
well  as  Dr.  Parry.'  " 

See  Trans.  Ind.  State  Med.  Society,  1862,  49;  also, 
1894,  212g,  and  Stone,  p.  373. 

PARVIN,  THEOPHILUS.  —  Indianapolis  ( 1829- 
1898).  Was  born  January  9,  1829,  at  Buenos  Ayres, 
South  America,  where  his  parents  were  residing  as 
missionaries,  and  died  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  Jan. 

29,  1898,  He  took  academic  honors  at  the  University 
of  Indiana,  and  in  1852  he  received  his  medical  degree 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  He  located  in  In- 
dianapolis as  a  practitioner  of  medicine  in  1853,  and 
except  one  year  when  he  resided  in  Cincinnati,  he  made 
Indianapolis  his  home  until  the  fall  of  1883,  when  he 
removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  remained  until  his 
death. 

While  a  resident  of  Indianapolis  in  1864  he  accepted 
the  chair  of  materia  medica  in  the  Medical  College  of 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    IX DIANA. 


325 


Ohio,  and  filled  that  position  until  1869.  He  then  held 
consecutive  professorships  in  the  University  of  Louis- 
ville, the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  In- 
dianapolis, and  the  Medical  College  of  Indiana  until 
1882,  when  he  returned  to  the  University  of  Louisville, 
where  he  remained  until  1883,  when  he  was  elected  to 
and  accepted  the  chair  of  obstetrics  and  diseases  of 
women  and  children,  in  the  Jefferson  Medical  College, 
a  position  he  filled  until  liis  death. 


THEOPHILUS  PARVIN. 


Dr.  Parvin  read  eight  papers  before  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society:  "Diseases  of  the  Eye  and  Ear," 
1857,  23;  "Obituary  of  Nathan  Knepfler","  1859,  56; 
"President's  Address,"  1862,  14;  "Vaginal  Fistules," 
1866,  78;  "Report  on  Diseases  of  Women,"  1868,  90; 
"Placental  Extraction  and  Placental  Expression,"  1871, 


326         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

11;  "Fibrous  Polypus  of  the  Eectum,"  1873,  113;  and 
"Treatment  of  Placenta  Prsevia,"  1876,  34. 

To  liim  belongs  the  honor  of  being  the  first  physi- 
cian of  Indiana  to  write  a  medical  text-book,  "Science 
and  Art  of  Obstetrics."  It  passed  through  two  or  more 
editions.  Although  the  work  did  not  appear  until 
1886,  yet  the  book  was  written  while  Dr.  Parvin  was  a 
resident  of  Indianapolis.  On  the  eve  of  his  departure 
for  Philadelphia  he  told  the  author  of  this  paper  that 
he  must  "dress  the  work  up  a  little." 

He  acquired  a  knowledge  of  the  German  language 
after  his  fiftieth  birthday,  and  translated  into  English 
Winckel's  work  on  "Diseases  of  Women." 

He  was  honored  with  the  presidency  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society  in  1862,  and  president  of  the 
American  Medical  Association,  1879.  Later  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Philadelphia  Obstetrical  Society  and  the 
American  Academy  of  Medicine.  He  received  the  degree 
of  LL.D.  from  Hanover  College  in  consideration  of  his 
superior  professional  attainments.  He  was  a  personal 
friend  of  Sir  James  Y.  Simpson  of  Edinburgh,  and  Dr. 
Wilde  of  Dublin.  He  met  like  cordial  recognition  from 
medical  men  in  France. 

Dr.  Parvin  excelled  as  a  lecturer  and  teacher,  while 
he  took  high  rank  as  a  polished  writer.  As  an  oper- 
ator he  was  surpassed  by  many. 

Dr.  W.  B.  Fletcher  said  of  him,  "He  was  the  purest 
man  I  ever  knew,  and  apparently  wholly  without  faults 
or  vices."  His  last  public  address  in  Indiana  was  on 
the  evening  of  June  16,  1896,  at  the  thirty-ninth  (semi- 
annual) meeting  of  the  Delaware  District  Medical 
Society  at  Dunkirk.  His  subject  Avas  "Sunshine  With- 
in Attracts  Sunshine  from  Without." 

Dr.  Parvin  established  the  Western  Journal  of  Medi- 
cine, at  Indianapolis,  in  January,  1866.  In  1870  he 
was  associated  with  Dr.  David  W.  Yandell  of  Louis- 
ville in  the  editorship  of  the  American  Practitioner,  at 
the  last  named  citj^,  a  position  he  filled  for  some  years. 

After  his  death  his  widow  presented  his  library,  con- 
sisting of  over  900  volumes,  to  the  medical  department 
of  the  Indianapolis  City  Library. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    I\ DIANA.         327 

His  remains  were  brouglit  back  to  Indianapolis  for 
interment. 

Robson,  361;  Stone,  375:  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  ii.  11;  xvi, 
325,  xvii,  143.    R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  7,  p.  262. 

PATTEN,  JAMES  C— Francisco  (1826-1003).  S. 
T.,  1903,  352.  In  1864  was  appointed  assistant  surgeon 
of  the  Fifty-eighth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  in  which  capacity 
he  served  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

PAYNTER,  CHRISTIAX  L.— Salem  (1824-1893). 
S.  T.  1893,  399.  Dr.  Paynter  served  with  credit  as 
second  lieutenant  in  Company  D,  Second  Reg.  Ind. 
Vols,  in  the  Mexican  War.  After  his  return  home  he 
pursued  the  study  of  medicine  and  became  a  successful 
practitioner. 

PEARMAN,  FRANCIS  M.— Palestine  (1836-1897). 
He  was  a  native  of  Indiana.  Was  assistant  surgeon  of 
the  Thirtieth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  and  in  1865  surgeon  of 
the  residuary  battalion  of  same  regiment.  Was  on  the 
board  of  examining  surgeons  for  pensions. 

PEARSON,  CHARLES  D.— Indianapolis  (1820- 
1890).  S.  T.  1890,  165.  For  seventeen  years  Dr.  Pear- 
son practiced  medicine  in  Lawrence  county,  and  for 
twenty-eight  years  in  Indianapolis.  During  the  Civil 
War  he  was  surgeon  of  the  Forty-ninth  and  Eighty- 
second  Regts.  Ind.  Vols.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Central  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons,  and 
occupied  the  chair  of  obstetrics,  and  subsequently  was 
professor  of  diseases  of  the  nervous  system.  He  con- 
tributed an  article  to  the  State  Society  in  1882  on 
"Puerperal  Eclampsia,"  Trans.  1882,  126.  R.  M.  of 
Ind.,  Dist.   7,  p.    165. 

PECK,  SAIMUEL  W.— Washington  (1817-1895).  S. 
T.  1895,  413. 

PENCE,  ROLLIN.— Miami  county  (1813-1899).  S. 
T.  1900,  333. 

PENNINGTON,  JOEL.— Milton  (1799-1887).  S.  T. 
1887,  199.  Dr.  Pennington's  "President's  Address," 
1873,  was  on  "Reminiscences  of  Practice,  and  Biograph- 
ical Sketches  of  Physicians  in  the  Early  History  of 
Indiana,"  Trans.  1873,  9.     A  portion  of  this  paper  has 


328         MEDICAL    EISTOBY    OF    INDIANA. 

already  been  published.  See  p.  33.  In  1877  he  con- 
tributed an  article  on  "Hereditary  Transmission  of 
Disease,"  Trans.   1877,   113. 

PEPPER,  WILLIAM  J.— Connersville  (1830-1892). 
S.  T.  1893,  249. 

PETTIJOHN,  AMOS.— Arcadia  (1815-1886).  S.  T. 
1887,  192. 

PHILLIPS,  CHARLES  W.— Jennings  county  (1859- 
1901).  Removed  to  Colorado  in  1898.  Died  at  Rocky 
Ford,  in  that  state,  Sept.  25,  1901. 

PHILLIPS,  R.  N.— Union,  Pike  county  (1822-1885). 
S.  T.  1886,  198. 

PHIPPS,  JOHN  M.— Bedford  (1849-1899).  S.  T. 
1900,  345. 

PITZER,  ANDREW  B.— Tipton  (1845-1895).  S.  T. 
1895,  412.  Was  a  member  of  the  148th  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 
Clerk  of  Tipton  county  for  four  years. 

PORTER,  ALBERT  O.— Lebanon  (1825-1893).  S. 
T.  1893,  258.  He  contributed  a  paper  to  the  State  So- 
ciety on  "Nervous  or  Sick  Headache,"  Trans.  1889,  99. 

Dr.  Porter  was  stricken  with  cerebral  hemorrhage 
while  at  the  bedside  of  a  woman  in  labor  and  died  a 
few  weeks  later.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  344.  R.  M.  of 
Ind.,  Dist.  9,  p.  36. 

PORTER,  WILLIAM  D.— Higginsville  (1826-1890). 
S.  T.  1891,  279. 

POSEY,  JOHN  W.— Petersburg  (1801-1884).  S.  T. 
1886,  196. 

POUCHER,  CHARLES  H.  C— Indianapolis  (1868- 
1901).     S.  T.  1901,  496. 

PRESTON,  ALBERT  G.— Greencastle  (1813-1889). 
S.  T.  1890,  153.  Dr.  Preston  located  in  Greencastle  in 
1844,  and  remained  there  until  his  death.  He  was  sur- 
geon of  the  Fifty-fifth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  He  also  visited 
a  number  of  battle-fields  at  the  request  of  Governor 
Morton.  He  was  present  at  the  Medical  Convention 
at  Indianapolis,  June  6,  1849. 

Dr.  Preston  reported  an  interesting  case,  "The  Re- 
port  of   a    Case    of    Complete    Transverse   Rupture    of 


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330         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Vagina  at  Its  Juncture  with  the  Uterus,  in  Which  no 
Hemorrhage  Occurred  after  That  Organ  Was  Expelled 
from  the  Body,"  Trans.  1882,  21.  Also  "Cases  of 
Arsenical  Poisoning,"  Trans.  1880,  47. 

PRESTON,  SAMUEL  C— Greencastle  (1846-1893). 
S.  T.  1893,  253. 

PRIGG,  EDWARD  C— Henry  county  (1826-1908). 
J.  I.  S.  M.  A.,  Vol.  i,  205. 

PROEGLER,  CARL.— Ft.  Wayne  (1837-1907).  S. 
T.,  1907,  472.  Dr.  Proegler  received  his  medical  educa- 
tion in  Germany,  located  in  New  York  in  1860,  and  at 
the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War  was  made  surgeon  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  Reg.  New  York  Vols.  He  located  in  Ft. 
Wayne  in  1874,  where  he  remained  until  his  death. 

PUGH,  JOHN  W.— Upland  (1827-1896).  S.  T.  1897, 
347. 

PUGH,     MAHLON.— Upland     (1835-1883).      S.     T. 

1884,  214. 

PUGH,  WILLIAM  A.— Rushville  (1829-1893).  S.. 
T.  1895,  398.  He  was  a  practitioner  of  forty-two  years' 
experience. 

PURVIANCE,  SAMUEL  W.— Crawfordsville  (1823- 
1891).     S.  T.  1892,  283. 

RAINEY,  HARVEY  W.— Indianapolis  (1854-1902). 
S.  T.  1903,  353. 

RANSBURG,  MARTIN  V.— Steuben  county  (1842- 
1900).     S.  T.  1900,  334. 

REA,  GEORGE  N.— New  Castle   (1852-1885).     S.  T. 

1885,  219. 

REA,  JOHN.— New  Castle  (1819-1899).  S.  T.  1899, 
405.  Dr.  Rea  practiced  medicine  in  Henry  county  half 
a  century,  and  ho  citizen  of  the  county  was  held  in 
higher  esteem.  In  1860  he  made  a  "Report  from  the 
New  Castle  Medical  Society"  to  the  State  Society, 
Trans.  1860,  58. 

READ,  EZRA.— Terre  Haute  (1811-1877).  Dr.  Read 
was  born  on  a  farm  near  Urbana,  Ohio,  1811,  and  died 
in  Terre  Haute,  May  10,  1877,  of  carcinoma  of  the 
stomach.     He  was  graduated  from  the  Athens  Univer- 


EZRA  READ. 


332         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    nWIA^^A. 

sity,  Ohio,  and  then  from  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio 
in  1835.  He  practiced  in  Cincinnati  for  a  short  time 
and  then  left  for  Texas,  He  participated  in  the  Texas- 
Mexican  War  and  was  made  Surgeon-in-Chief  of  the 
Texan  army  and  also  of  the  navy.  In  the  history  of 
the  United  States  the  little  Texas  navy  is  absolutely 
unique,  and  few  people  now  know  anything  about  its 
existence.  Dr.  Read  located  in  Paris,  111.,  in  1840,  and 
came  to  Terre  Haute  in  1844.  At  this  time  he  found 
an  active  Vigo  County  Medical  Society  and  took  an 
active  part  in  its  affairs.  During  the  Civil  War  he 
was  surgeon  for  the  Twenty-first  Indiana  Artillery,  and 
later  surgeon  of  the  Eleventh  Reg.  Ind.  Cav.  He  was 
president  of  the  Vigo  County  Medical  Society  for  two 
years,  1874-76.  He  was  postmaster  in  Terre  Haute 
under  President  Johnson.  He  was  a  great  lover  of 
books  and  accumulated  quite  a  library,  especially  of  the 
classics.  He  read  Latin,  Greek  and  French  with  facil- 
ity and  could  quote  endlessly  in  the  original  from  Vir- 
gil, Horace  and  Homer.  He  stood  high  in  the  profes- 
sion and  was  a  great  friend  of  the  poor.  The  flags  of 
the  city  were  at  half-mast  at  his  death,  and  the  whole 
community  united  at  the  funeral  in  honoring  one  who 
had  done  so  much  for  them. — Drs.  Charles  N.  Combs 
and  Stephen  J.  Young,  Terre  Haute.  In  1836,  during 
the  Texan  war  for  independence.  General  Felix  Huston 
and  General  Albert  Sydney  Johnston  fought  a  duel. 
The  latter  was  severely  wounded  in  the  hip  and  inca- 
pacitated for  further  service,  Dr,  Read  was  the  attend- 
ing surgeon.     General  Johnston  was  killed  at  Shiloh. — 

G.  W.  H.  K. 

REASONER,     WILLIAM     M.  —  Sulphur      Springs 

(1828-1887).     S,  T,  1888,  202. 
REEVES,    URIAH    G.— Cliffy    (1820-1882).      S.    T. 

1883,  266. 

REILEY,  WILLIAM   F.— Sardinia    (1828-1895).     S. 

T.,  1896,  259. 

RENNER,  JOHN  G.  E.— Indianapolis    (1850-1878). 

S,   T,    1880,  238,     Dr.  Renner  was  born   in  Germany, 

came  to  America  late  in  the  sixties,  graduated  from  the 

University  of  Louisville  in  1877,  and  immediately  be- 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         333 

gan  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Indianapolis.  "On  the 
27th  of  August,  1878,  he  announced  his  conviction  that 
his  path  of  duty  would  lead  him  to  the  succor  of  the 
victims  of  yellow  fever  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  and,  despite 
all  the  remonstrances  of  friends,  the  evening  of  August 
29  found  him  domiciled  in  Memphis  and  ready  with 
his  share  of  help  for  the  afflicted.  He  remained  en- 
gaged in  this  self-imposed  duty,  rendering  all  the  aid 
that  stricken  humanity  could  have  expected  from  one 
man  until  September  11,  when  the  relief -extending 
hand  was  itself  paralyzed  by  the  scourge  whose  rav- 
ages it  had  helped  to  mitigate,  and  after  five  days  of 
torture,  on  Sept.  16,  1878,  his  light  went  out  and  his 
life  was  laid  as  a  sacrifice  upon  the  altar  of  our  com- 
mon humanity," — Dr.  I.  A.  E.  Lyons. 

RICHARDSON,  GEORGE  T.— Delphi  (1834-1880).. 
S.  T.  1881,  238.  Dr.  Richardson  served  for  a  time  as  a 
lieutenant  in  the  Civil  War.  In  1862,  and  again  in 
1872,  he  was  elected  to  the  legislature  to  represent 
White  and  Benton  counties  the  first  time  and  Carroll 
county  the  second  time. 

RICHARDSON,  NEHEMIAH.— Vernon  (1824-1899). 
S.  T.  1900,  335. 

RICHMOND,  CORYDON.— Kokomo  (1808-1906). 
Was  born  in  Onondaga,  New  York,  November  22,  1808, 
and  died  at  Kokomo,  October  1,  1906.  He  was  a  son 
of  Dr.  John  L.  Richmond.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the 
Ohio  Medical  College  1832,  and  immediately  located 
at  Pendleton,  where  he  continued  in  practice  until 
1838,  when  he  removed  to  Indianapolis,  where  he  and 
his  father  entered  into  partnership  with  Dr.  G.  W. 
Mears.  In  1844  he  visited  the  Indian  Reserve,  as  it 
was  then  cahed,  in  Howard  County,  and,  after  exam- 
ining it,  decided  to  locate  there.  The  same  season,  he 
and  some  others  built  cabins  and  removed  their  fami- 
lies to  them,  and  this  was  the  beginning  of  the  present 
city  of  Kokomo.  In  1847  he  represented  Howard  and 
Cass  Counties  in  the  legislature.  In  1863  he  became 
assistant  surgeon  in  Military  Hospital  No.  3,  Nash- 
ville, Tennessee,  where  he  remained  some  time.  In 
March,  1865,  he  again  returned  to  Nashville  and  ren- 


334         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

derecl  medical  services  to  colored  troops.  In  1867  he 
was  elected  mayor  o'f  Kokomo,  and  served  two  years. 
During  his  long  residence  in  Kokomo,  "he  preserved 
a  healthful  uniformity  of  life,  never  mounting  to  the 
heights  of  fame,  nor  ever  descending  beneath  the  level 
of  true  manhood." — See  an  interesting  sketch  of  his 
life  in  Am.  Biog.  Hist,  of  Eminent  and  Self-Made  Men 
of  Indiana,  Dist.  11,  p.  40. 

RICHMOND,  JOHN  L.— Indianapolis  (1785-1855). 
Born  in  Massachusetts,  April  5,  1785,  and  died  at  Cov- 
ington, Indiana,  in  October,  1855.  First  practiced 
medicine  at  Newtown,  Ohio,  where  he  performed  a 
Cesarean  operation,  April  23,  1827.  Possibly  this  was 
the  first  recorded  case  of  Cesarean  operation  in  the 
United  States.  He  saved  the  mother  but  lost  the  child. 
See  Western  Jour.  Med.  and  Physical  Sciences,  Vol.  iii, 
485  (1830).  See  same  case,  with  comments,  by  G.  W. 
H.  Kemper,  Indianapolis  Med.  Jour.,  Vol.  xii,  376.  Is 
mentioned  in  Churchill's  Midwifery  (1857),  363,  but 
the  author  erroneously  states  that  the  child  was  saved. 

In  the  early  30's  Dr.  Richmond  removed  to  Pendle- 
ton, Indiana,  where  he  assumed  the  pastorate  of  a  Bap- 
tist church  and  practiced  medicine.  After  a  few  years 
he  removed  to  Indianapolis  and  formed  a  partnership 
with  Dr.  G.  W.  Mears.  In  1842  he  was  stricken  with 
paralysis,  when  he  abandoned  practice  and  removed  to 
Covington,  where  he  died  and  was  buried.  Some  years 
later  his  body  and  also  that  of  his  wife  were  reinterred 
at  Lafayette,  Ind.  See  Dr.  W.  H.  Wishard's  paper. 
Trans.  1893,  24,  and  also  in  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  199 
(January,  1893).  Also  see  interesting  letter  by  Dr. 
W.  N.  Wishard,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxvii,  112  (September, 
1908). 

BOBBINS,  ALFRED  H.— Rochester  (1826-1906). 
Was  born  in  Adams  County,  Ohio,  July  4,  1826,  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Henry  County,  Indiana,  in 
1829;  removed  to  Fulton  County  in  1836;  graduated 
at  the  University  of  Buffalo,  in  1850,  and  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  Rochester  same  year.  In  1856, 
and  1860  was  elected  and  represented  Fulton  County  in 
the  State  Legislature,  serving  also  at  the  special  ses- 


JOHN  L=  RICHMOND 


MEDICAL    JIJHTORY    OF   INDIANA.         :v.io 

sion  at  tlie  outbreak  of  the  rebellion.  In  1801  he  was 
elected  vice-president  of  the  State  Medical  Society,  and 
served  at  session  of  1862.  Died  October  8,  1900. — 
Sketch  furnished  by  Dr.  M.   0.  King,  Rochester. 

ROGERS,  JOSEPH  H.  D.— Madison  (1805-1885). 
Was  born  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  in  1805.  He  graduated 
in  medicine  at  the  Transylvania  University.  He  was  a 
colonel  in  the  Texan  rebellion,  and  about  1840,  per- 
manently settled  in  Madison,  where  he  established  a 
large  practice  up  to  the  time  of  his  retirement  from 
active  practice  about  1875.  He  was  a  man  of  large 
physique  and  strong  personality,  and  enjoyed  a  rather 
widespread  reputation  as  a  surgeon  in  southern  In- 
diana and  northern  Kentucky,  He  died  at  Madison  in 
1885.  (From  a  letter  of  Dr.  Clarke  Rogers,  Logans- 
port,  a  grandson.)  Dr.  Rogers  was  present  at  the 
organization  of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1849.  He 
was  the  father  of  the  late  Dr.  Joseph  G.  Rogers. 

ROGERS,  JOSEPH  G.  (1841-1908).  Dr.  Rogers  was 
a  native  of  Indiana,  and  all  his  medical  services  were 
given  to  the  afflicted  of  his  native  state.  The  mention 
of  his  name  calls  up  a  vision  of  a  Hospital  for  the 
Insane.  He  graduated  in  medicine  in  1864,  and  was 
immediately  commissioned  as  an  acting  assistant  sur- 
geon. United  States  army,  on  duty  at  Madison,  Ind. 
This  position  he  filled  until  the  close  of  the  war.  In 
1875-76  he  was  Professor  of  Materia  Medica  and 
Therapeutics  in  the  Indiana  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons.  From  1879  to  1883  he  was  superintendent 
of  the  Indiana  Hospital  for  Insane  at  Indianapolis.  He 
was  Medical  Engineer  on  the  Board  of  Commissioners 
for  Additional  Hospitals  for  Insane  from  its  organiza- 
tion in  1883  up  to  the  completion  of  the  new  hospitals 
in  1888;  at  the  same  time  he  was  Superintendent  of 
Construction  for  the  Northern  Hospital  (Longcliff), 
and  on  its  completion  was  appointed  Medical  Superin- 
tendent, a  position  he  held  continuously  until  the  date 
of  his  death. 

Dr.  Rogers  was  the  first  to  make  a  quantitative 
chemical  examination  of  the  waters  of  Orange  county, 


336         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

and  suggested  the  name,  "Pluto's  Well."  He  devised  a 
method  for  preventing  the  incrustations  in  boilers 
which  became  commercially  successful. 

He  contributed  a  number  of  valuable  articles  on  sub- 
jects relating  to  the  insane.  In  the  Indiana  Medical 
Journal  for  October,  1901,  is  a  thoughtful  article  from 
his  pen  entitled  "Cold  as  a  Cure  for  Tetanus." 

Various  other  articles  on  a  diversity  of  subjects  have 
been  contributed  by  Dr.  Rogers.  Dr.  Robert  Hessler  of 
Logansport  has  given  {The  Journal  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Association,  May,  1908,  205)  a  valuable 
epitome  of  the  life  and  professional  work  of  Dr.  Rog- 
ers, from  which  I  have  largely  extracted  this  sketch, 
and  to  which  the  reader  is  referred  for  fuller  informa- 
tion. Also  to  Stone,  428.  Also  a  tribute  "In  Memo- 
riam,"  by  Dr.  Samuel  E.  Smith,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxvi,  450. 

ROOKER,  JAMES  I.— Castleton  (1833-1896).  Dr. 
Rooker  was  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Eleventh  Reg.  Ind. 
Vols,  from  1861  to  1863.  From  1875  to  1879  he  lec- 
tured on  physical  diagnosis  at  the  College  of  Physi- 
cians and  Surgeons.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Central  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  1879, 
and  again  lectured  on  physical  diagnosis.  His  papers 
before  the  State  Society  were  on  "Camp  Diarrhea," 
Trans.  1864,  33;  "A  Few  Thoughts  on  How  to  Obtain 
Practice,"  1873,  95;  "The  Indiscriminate  Use  of  Hypo- 
dermic Medication,"  1877,  89;  "The  Medical  Proper- 
ties of  Fraxinus  Americanus,"  1886,  48;  and  "Thirty- 
three  Years  a  Country  Doctor,"  1889,  121.  For  biog- 
raphy see  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xiv,  444.  Stone  (with  por- 
trait), 428. 

ROSE,  MADISON  H.— Thorntown  (1832-1904).  S. 
T.  1905,  456.  Dr.  Rose  graduated  from  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Buffalo  in  1861.  He 
was  surgeon  of  the  Fifty-third  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  from 
March,  1863,  to  April,  1865. 

ROSENTHAL,  ISAAC  M.— Ft.  Wayne  (1831-1906). 
S.  T.  1907,  473.  Dr.  Rosenthal  was  born  in  Germany. 
He  practiced  medicine  in  Ft.  Wayne  continuously  for 
forty-six  years.  He  was  a  Jew,  not  narrow,  and  was 
loved  by  all. 


ISAAC  M.  ROSENTHAL. 


338         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

"A  curious  incident  in  liis  life  was  the  fact  that  he 
suffered  from  a  purulent  otitis  media  for  more  than 
fifty  years,  caused  by  the  explosion  of  a  gun.  He 
steadfastly  refused  surgical  relief,  and  finally  died 
from  an  abscess  of  the  brain  with  diffuse  meningeal 
infection  caused  by  an  extension  of  the  middle  ear  dis- 
ease to  the  temporo-sphenoidal  lobe  of  the  brain.  If 
he  had  consented  to  the  removal  of  this  focus  of  infec- 
tion years  before  he  should  be  living  now  in  a  fair  state 
of  health."— Dr.  G.  W.  McCaskey.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol. 
XXV,   195. 

ROSS,  CHARLES  A.— U.  S.  Army  (1875-1901).  S. 
T.  1901,  497.  Soon  after  graduation,  in  order  to  gain 
greater  surgical  experience,  he  decided  to  enlist  in  the 
army.  He  successfully  passed  the  rigid  examination 
necessary  in  August,  1900,  and  was  soon  commissioned 
an  assistant  surgeon  in  the  U.  S.  Army  and  ordered  to 
the  Philippines.  He  had  been  in  the  islands  only  about 
three  months  when  he  was  stricken  down. 

''Dr.  Ross  died  on  the  fighting  line  in  northern 
Luzon,  Philippine.  Islands.  A  soldier  had  been  wounded, 
and  Dr.  Ross,  accompanied  by  two  hospital  stewards, 
went  to  carry  the  wounded  man  to  the  hospital  tent. 
It  was  while  in  the  performance  of  this  duty  t.hat  he 
was  fired  upon  from  ambush,  and  his  young  life  ebbed 
away  there  upon  the  battle-field  while  heroically  min- 
istering to  one  who  was  fighting  for  his  country." — Dr. 
C.  T.  Hendershot. 

He  was  born  in  Crawford  county,  Indiana,  and  had 
for  a  short  time  practiced  at  Leopold,  Perry  county. 

ROSS,  JONATHAN.— Blountsville  (1828-1888).  S. 
T.  1888,  211.  Dr.  Ross  enlisted  in  the  Thirty-sixth  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols,  and  later  was  promoted  to  first  lieutenant 
in  Company  K,  and  was  mustered  out  at  the  close  of 
the  war  with  his  regiment. 

ROSS,  JUSTIN  P.— Marion  (1840-1896).  S.  T. 
1896,  261. 

ROUS,  HANNAH  C— Vevay  (1854-1905).  S.  T. 
1905,  457.  Dr.  Rous  was  secretary  of  the  Switzerland 
County  Medical  Society  from  its  organization  until  the 
year  before  she  died.     I  never  sent  her  a  blank  for  a 


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report  on  necrology  that  she  did  not  at  once  reply,  "No 
death  this  year,"  or  give  tlie  name  if  any  member  had 
died.  She  deserves  this  trifling  tribute  for  her  faith- 
fulness. 

RUBUSH,  DAVID  P.— Sharpsville  (1847-1904).  S. 
T.  1906,  502.  At  the  age  of  16  he  left  Tennessee  and 
came  to  Indiana,  where  he  enlisted  in  the  service  of  his 
country  and  was  assigned  to  the  Twenty-fifth  Independ- 
ent Battery,  Light  Artillery,  where  he  served  with 
credit  till  the  close  of  the  civil  war,  receiving  an  honor- 
able discharge.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  473.  Also  Med. 
and  Surg.  Monitor  (with  picture),  Vol.  vii,  145. 

KUNDELL,  ALPHARIS  E.— Clay  county  (1850- 
1900).     S.  T.  1900,  499. 

SANBORN,  PERLEY  P.— Angola  ( 1861-1897  j.  i. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  XV,  380. 

SANFORD,  JAMES  li.— Shelbyville  (1838-1903).  S. 
T.  1904,  361. 

SCHAFER,  ALBERT  F.— South  Bend  (1803-1898). 
S.  T.  1899,  391. 

SCHMIDT,  ELIZABETH.  —  Indianapolis  (1827- 
1904).    I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  418. 

SCHMIDTZ,  CHARLES.— Ft.  Wayne  (1809-1887). 
S.  T.  1887,  196. 

SCHULTZ,  OSCAR  T.— Mt.  Vernon  (1848-1890).  S. 
T.  1890,  164. 

SCOTT,  DANIEL  v.— JefTersonville  (1872-1904).  S. 
T.  1904,  363. 

SCOTT,  GIDEON.— Greentown  (1838-1898).  S.  T. 
1898,  388. 

SCOTT,  WILLIAM.— Kokomo  (1831-1895).  Dr. 
Scott  was  a  native  of  Ohio;  a  graduate  of  Rush  Med- 
ical College.  In  1881  he  accepted  the  chair  of  diseases 
of  the  throat  and  respiratory  organs  in  the  Fort 
Wayne  College  of  Medicine,  which  he  filled  until  1883. 
He  was  then  appointed  professor  of  diseases  of  the 
rectum  and  genito-urinary  organs,  and  filled  that  posi- 
tion until  1888,  when  he  resigned.  For  biography  see 
Stone,  460;  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xiv,  275. 


340         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

SCEAMBLING,  WILLIAJM  H.— Slash,  Grant  county 
(1842-1881).     S.  T.,  1882,  196. 

SCRIBNER,  WILLIAM  AUGUSTUS.— New  Albany 
(1800-1868).  Born  in  Massachusetts,  Feb.  19,  1800. 
and  died  at  New  Albany,  April  16,  1868.  Was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Medical  Convention,  June  6,  1849. 

SCULL,  DAVID  C— Lebanon  (1839-1897).  S.  T. 
1898,  377.  He  served  three  years  as  a  soldier  in  the 
Thirteenth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

SEATON,  WILLIAM  H.— Indianapolis  (1873-1899). 
S.  T.  1900,  336. 

SEVERANCE,  LA  GRANGE.— Huntington  (1839- 
1893).     S.  T.  1893,  256. 

SEXTON,  HORATIO  G.— Rushville  (1796-1865). 
Born  in  Andover,  New  Hampshire,  Jan.  21,  1796.  See 
p.  77. 

SEXTON,  MARSHALL.— Rushville  (1823-1892).  S. 
T.  1892,  286.  Son  of  the  above.  Born,  lived  and  died 
at  Rushville.  Was  surgeon  for  some  months  of  the 
Fifty-second  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  Was  elected  president  of 
the  State  Medical  Society  in  1881  and  presided  in  1882. 
He  contributed  the  following  papers  to  the  State  So- 
ciety: "Case  of  Dislocation  of  Femur  Upward  and 
Backward,  Reduced  by  Manipulation,"  Trans.  1869,  31; 
"Rupture  of  the  Uterus  and  Vagina,  Case  — ,  Recov- 
ery," Trans.  1873,  107;  and  "President's  Address, 
Boards  of  Health,  Medical  Legislation,  and  the  Rights 
and  Duties  of  Physicians  Under  the  Law,"  Trans.  1882, 
1.  He  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  white  male  child 
born  in  Rushville  and  the  first  graduate  of  medicine  in 
Rush  county.    See  memoriam,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  x,  182. 

SHELLHAMER,  CAREY.— Pioneer  (1845-1907).  S. 
T.  1907,  494. 

SHIDLER,  ARTHUR  L.— Lakeville  (1860-1899).  S. 
T.  1900,  337. 

SHIELDS,  PLEASANT  SCOTT.— New  Albany, 
(1806-1875).  Dr.  Shields  was  born  near  Georgetown, 
Ind.,  November  30,  1806,  and  died  at  New  Albany, 
January  29,  1875.  He  remained  at  the  place  of  his 
birth  until  his  majority,  when  he  went  to  New  Albany, 


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and  entered  the  office  of  Dr.  Asahel  Clapp  to  study 
medicine.  He  returned  to  Georgetown  and  practiced 
for  several  years.  In  1832,  he  removed  to  New  Al- 
bany, where  he  lived  until  the  day  of  his  deatli,  be- 
loved by  all.  He  was  the  poor  man's  friend.  Was 
an  Elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  Church. — The  above 
written  in  a  neat  hand,  was  furnished  me  by  Mrs. 
Aresta  Nunemacher,  aged  81  years,  a  relative  of  Dr. 
Shields.— G.  W.  H.  K. 

He  was  present  at  the  medical  convention  held  at 
Indianapolis,  June  6,  1849. 

SHIPMAN,  NORBOURN  N.— Seymour  (1829-1902). 
S.  T.  1902,  423.  He  contributed  an  article  on  "Preter- 
natural Sleep,"  Trans.  1892,  146. 

SHIRTS,  ELMER.— Bloomfield  (1861-1908).  J.  I. 
S.  M.  A.,  Vol.  i,  112. 

SHIVELY,  JAMES  S.— Marion  (1813-1893).  S.  T. 
1893,  260.  He  was  born  in  Morgantown,  Va.,  April  8, 
1813.  After  due  preparation  for  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine he  located  in  Marion,  where  he  remained  until  his 
death.  He  was  respected  and  honored  by  all.  He  w^as 
four  times  elected  to  serve  his  constituents  in  the  State 
Legislature.  To  him,  as  joint  senator,  the  profession  is 
indebted  for  the  present  law  governing  the  practice  of 
medicine.  See  Stone,  465,  for  biography  and  portrait. 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  376. 

SHOPTAUGH,  SHELTOX  H.— Princeton  (1840- 
1898).     S.  T.  1899,  387. 

SHOW  ALTER,  D.  T.— Montpelier  (1845-1883).  S. 
T.  1883,  272. 

SIEBER,  JOHN  A.— Ferdinand  (1853-1883).  S.  T. 
1883,  279. 

SIMISON,  JOHN.— Romney  (1824-1902).  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  xxi,  134. 

SINEX,  WILLIAM  G.— New  Albany  (1826-1899). 
Was  born  in  New  Albany,  Nov.  27,  1826,  and  died  in 
the  same  city,  March  25,  1899.  He  was  a  graduate  of 
Asbury  (Greencastle)  College.  Graduated  at  one  of 
the  medical   schools  of   Philadelphia.     He  was  one  of 


342         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    nWIANA. 

the  members  of  the  Medical  Convention  of  1849. — Mrs. 
Olive  E.  Sinex,  Indianapolis,  daughter-in-law. 

SKIFF,  CLARK.— Selma  (1826-1888).  S.  T.  1889, 
212. 

SLOAX,  GEORGE  W.— Indianapolis  (1835-1903).  S. 
T.  1903,  354.  A  native  of  Pennsylvania,  he  came  to 
Indianapolis  as  a  child  in  1837,  and  remained  there 
until  he  died.  He  was  not  a  practicing  physician,  but 
was  a  lecturer  on  pharmacy  in  the  Indiana  Medical 
College,  and  in  1879  and  1880  was  president  of  the 
American  Pharmaceutical  Society. 

He  was  a  first  lieutenant  in  Company  B,  132d  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols.,  in  the  Civil  War.  See  biographical  sketch. 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxi,  399;  also,  ib.,  Vol.  xxii,  246. 

SLOAX,  JOHX.— New  Albany  (1815-1898).  S.  T. 
1898,  392.  Dr.  Sloan  was  born  in  Westbrook,  Maine, 
Sept.  15,  1815.  Graduated  at  Bowdoin  College  in  1837, 
and  located  in  Xew  Albany  in  1838.  Here  he  lived 
until  the  date  of  his  death. 

"His  was  a  long  career.  He  was  in  active  practice 
before  the  days  of  anesthetics,  when  calomel  was  the 
cure-all  and  blood-letting  a  'fine  art.'  He  was  in  the 
prime  of  manhood  when  the  Civil  War  came  and  gave  a 
new  impetus  to  the  study  of  surgery.  The  afternoon 
and  evening  of  his  life  witnessed  the  advent  and  con- 
tinuance of  the  antiseptic  era." — Dr.  E.  P.  Earley. 

He  was  present  at  the  formation  of  the  State  Society 
in  1849,  and  at  that  meeting  was  erroneously  accredited 
to  Crawfordsville.     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvi,  414. 

SMITH,  AXDREW  J.— Wabash  (1830-1900).  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xix,  284. 

SMITH,  HUBBARD  M.— Vincennes  (1820-1907). 
Dr.  Smith  was  well  known  as  a  physician,  writer  and 
educator.  Following  his  graduation  in  1847  he  located 
in  Vincennes,  where  he  commenced  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine, and  continued  the  same  until  his  death.  He  was 
the  first  physician  in  Vincennes  to  recognize  the  pres- 
ence of  cholera  in  1849. 

He  was  among  the  first  to  champion  the  cause  of 
Abraham  Lincoln  for  President,  through  the  columns 


MEDICAL    HIHTOUY    OF    INDIANA.         34;} 

of  the  Vincennes  Gazette,  in  1S60,  and  was  made  post- 
master at  that  place  from  18G1  to  1809. 

Dr.  Smitli  contributed  an  interesting  article  on 
"Medicine  in  the  Northwestern  Territory;  A  Contri- 
bution to  the  Early  Medical  History  of  Indiana," 
Trans.  1906,  438.  This  article  is  reproduced  on  p.  18. 
He  was  a  poet  of  no  mean  order.  A  collection  of  his 
poems  entitled  "At  Midnight  and  Other  Poems"  was 
published  in  book  form  by  Carlin  &  Hollenbeck  in  1898. 
His  last  contribution  w^as  "Historical  Sketches  of  Old 
Vincennes." 

He  believed  it  to  be  his  patriotic  duty  to  take  an 
interest  in  the  affairs  of  his  city,  his  state,  and  his 
nation  on  all  matters  of  public  interest,  and  he  did  so. 

For  biography  see  Journal  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Association,  Vol.  i.  29.  Also,  American  Bio- 
graphical History  of  Eminent  and  Self-Made  Men  of 
the  State  of  Indiana,  1880,  Second  District,  p.  32.  A 
letter,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxv,  362.  See  poem,  Conscience." 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvi,  316. 

SMITH,  JOHN  W.— Gosport  (1830-1903).  S.  T. 
1903,  355. 

SMITH,  LESTER  F.— Brazil  (1883-1907).  S.  T., 
1907,  477. 

SMITH,  THEOPHILUS  E.— Columbus  (1846-1890). 
S.  T.  1890,  166.     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  179. 

SMITH,  WILLIAM  G.— Winchester  (1837-1892).  S. 
T.,  1893,  247. 

SMITH,  WYCLIFFE.— Delphi  (1851-1900).  Was 
surgeon  of  the  161st  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  in  the  Spanish- 
American  War.  Was  accidentally  killed  by  an  express 
train  near  Delphi,  Dec.  29.  1900.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol. 
xviii,  315. 

SMYTHE,  GONSOLVO  C— Greencastle  (1836-1897). 
S.  T.  1897,  354.  Dr.  Smythe  began  practice  at  Fill- 
more, near  Greencastle,  in  1860.  He  entered  the  army 
in  1862,  as  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Forty-third  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols.,  and  served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when 
he  began  practice  at  Greencastle.  In  1879  he  was 
elected  to  the  chair  of  Medicine  and  Sanitary  Science 


344         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  at  Indian- 
apolis. In  1890  he  was  elected  president  of  the  State 
Medical  Society.  He  contributed  a  number  of  papers 
to  the  State  Society:  "Acute  Articular  Rheumatism," 
Trans.  1888,  33;  "The  Hydro-therapeutic  Treatment  of 
Typhoid  Fever,"  Trans.  1889,  60;  "President's  Ad- 
dress; The  Influence  of  Heredity  in  Producing  Disease 
and  Degeneracy,  and  Its  Remedy,"  Trans.  1891,  1,  and 
"The  Treatment  of  Alcoholism,"  Trans.  1895,  338.  He 
was  also  a  frequent  contributor  to  medical  journals. 
He  is  the  author  of  a  book  on  "Medical  Heresies,  His- 
torically Considered,"  a  book  of  228  pages,  published 
by  the  Blakiston  house  in  1880.  It  is  claimed  "that 
he  was  the  first  physician  in  America  to  use  the  hypo- 
dermic syringe."     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xv,  382. 

SPAIN,  ARCHIBALD  W.— Terre  Haute  (1837- 
1898).     S.  T.  1898,  385. 

SPARKS,  JAMES  B.— Carthage  (1833-1895).  S.  T. 
1896,  253. 

SPINNING,  JOHN  N.— Covington  (1822-1890).  S. 
T.  1890,  162. 

SPURRIER,  JOHN  H.— Rushville  (1829-1902).  S. 
T.  1902,  424.  He  was  assistant  surgeon  of  the  Six- 
teenth Reg.  and  later  surgeon  of  the  123d  Reg.  Ind. 
Vols.,  serving  in  the  latter  to  the  close  of  the  war. 

STAGE,  LOUIS  J.— Vallonia  (1821-1880^).  S.  T. 
1882,  195. 

STANTON,  D.  S.— Portland  (1822-1906).  S.  T. 
1907,  487. 

STARR,  ILER  D.— New  Albany  (1874-1899).  S.  T. 
1900,  338. 

STEELE,      ARMSTRONG      T.  —  Waveland      (1834- 

1884).     S.  T.  1887,  187. 

STEELSMITH,  JOHN  M.— Boone  county  (1825- 
1900).     S.  T.  1900,  339. 

STEVENS,  BENJAMIN  C.  —  Logansport  (1850- 
1908). 

STEVENS,  OLIVER  P.— Maxiukuckee  (1820-1888). 
S.  T.   1888,  214.     Formerly  practiced  at   Kendallville, 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         345 

removed  to  Wisconsin,  and  during  the  Civil  War  was 
surgeon  of  the  Forty-second  Reg.  Wisconsin  Vols,  At 
the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  Indiana. 

STEVENS,  THADDEUS  M.— Indianapolis  (1829- 
1885).  S.  T.  1886,  207.  Born,  reared  and  died  in  In- 
dianapolis. Was  professor  of  toxicology,  medical 
jurisprudence  and  chemistry  in  the  Indiana  Medical 
College  in  1870.  In  1874,  occupied  the  same  chair  in 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  For  a  time 
he  was  editor  of  the  Indiana  Medical  Journal.  He  was 
the  first  secretary  and  executive  officer  of  the  State 
Board  of  Health.  He  was  prominent  in  all  reforms 
tending  to  advance  the  profession  of  the  state.  He 
contributed  a  number  of  papers  to  the  State  Society: 
"The  Treatment  of  the  Criminal  Insane,"  Trans.  1871, 
193;  "Medicolegal  Science,"  Trans.  1872,  51;  "Report 
on  Medical  History  of  Indiana,"  Trans.  1874,  17; 
"State  Boards  of  Health,"  Trans.  1875,  65;  "Report  of 
Public  Hygiene  in  Indiana,"  Trans.  1878,  67;  "Sani- 
tary Survey  of  Indianapolis,"  Trans.  1880,  193;  "State 
Medicine,"  Trans.  1881,  23;  "The  Need  of  Hospitals  in 
Indiana,  Constructed  and  Controlled  by  State  Author- 
ity," Trans.  1882,  56;  "Dr.  Stevens  vs.  State  Board  of 
Health,"  Trans.  1883,  70;  "The  Relative  Value  of 
Bovine  and  Humanized  Vaccine  Virus,  Practically 
Considered,"  ib.,  213;  "Report  of  Committee  on  Med- 
ical Legislation,"  ib.,  239;  and  "Report  of  Committee 
on  State  Medicine,"  Trans.  1884,  24.  See  Stone,  682, 
and  Robson,  341.     Obituary,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  iv,  109. 

STEWART,  JOHN  L.— New  Albany   (1835-1898).  S. 
T.    1899,  386. 

STILLSON,    JOSEPH.  —  Bedford     (1815-1885).      S. 
T.  1886,  204. 

STILL  WELL,     JOSEPH     A.— Brownstown      (1831- 
1894).     S.  T.  1895,  401. 

STOCKWELL,     SARAH     F.— South     Bend      (1841- 
1904).     S.  T.  1904,  362. 

STRONG,  JOHN  T.— Plainfield    (1840-1895).     I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xiv,  142. 


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MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 


SUTTON,  GEORGE.— Aurora  (1812-1886).  S.  T. 
1886,  219.  Dr.  Sutton  was  Lorn  in  London,  England, 
June  16,  1812,  and  came  to  America  with  his  parents 
when  young  (1819).  Graduated  at  the  Ohio  Medical 
College  in  1836,  and  the  same  year  began  the  practice 
of  medicine  at  Aurora.  In  the  spring  of  1843  he  was 
instrumental  in  organizing  the  first  county  medical 
society  in  Dearborn  county.     He  joined  the  State  Med- 


GEORGE  SUTTON. 


ical  Society  in  1852,  and  was  elected  its  president  in 
1869  and  presided  in  1870.  The  State  Transactions 
contain  the  following  papers  from  his  pen:  "A  Report 
to  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society  on  Asiatic  Chol- 
era as  it  Prevailed  in  This  State  in  1849-50-51-52," 
1853,  109;  "Preliminary  Report  on  Milk  Sickness  as  it 
Prevails    Within    the    State    of    Indiana,"    1853,    176; 


MEDICAL    UIHTORY    OF    IXDIA^A.         347 

"Report  on  Erysipelas,"  1856,  41;  "Report  on  Cholera," 
18G7,  85;  and  1808,  51;  "President's  Address:  Man's 
Power  Over  Nature,  and  Medicines  as  Means  by  Which 
He  Aids  and  Controls  the  Laws  of  Life,"  1870,  1; 
"Report  on  the  Diseases  of  Indiana  for  the  Year  1872, 
with  a  Brief  Outline  of  the  Medical  Topography  and 
Cliinatology  of  Different  Localities,"  1873,  Gl;  "A 
Report  on  Trichinosis,  as  Observed  in  Dearborn 
County  in  1874,"  1875,  109;  "On  the  Reduction  of  Dis- 
location of  Hip- joint  by  Manipulating  the  Femur  as  a 
Lever  Over  a  Fulcrum  Placed  in  the  Groin,"  187G,  139; 
"Placenta  Previa,"  1878,  111;  "Parasites,  and  Their 
Effects  Upon  the  Human  System,"  1883,  53,  and  "A 
Review  of  the  Epidemics  That  Have  Occurred  in  South- 
eastern Indiana  During  the  Last  Fifty  Years,  and  the 
Observations  on  Change  of  Type  in  Our  Endemic 
Malarial  Diseases,"  1885,  104.  Every  one  of  these 
reports  was  prepared  with  extreme  care  and  all  are 
valuable.  Under  the  head  of  "Epidemics,"  I  have 
referred  to  the  valuable  paper  of  Dr.  Sutton.  "Remarks 
on  an  Epidemic  Erysipelas  Known  by  the  Popular 
name  of  'Black  Tongue,'  which  prevailed  in  Ripley  and 
Dearborn  Counties,  Indiana."  Wesfe7-n  Lancet,  Novem- 
ber, 1843.  This  whole  article  was  reproduced  in  "Nun- 
neley  on  Erysipelas."  ed.  1844.  95.  Various  other  med- 
ical papers,  as  well  as  articles  on  scientific  subjects, 
have  been  contributed  from  time  to  time  by  Dr.  Sutton. 
For  biography  see  Robson.  293;  Stone.  6S6:  Am.  Bio- 
^,'raphical  History  of  Eminent  and  Self-made  Men  of 
Ihe  State  of  Indiana,  1880,  Fourth  District,  G5. 

SUTTON,  JAMES  A.— Argos  (1840-1893).  S.  T. 
1894.  216.  Served  as  a  private  soldier  from  August, 
1862,  to  July  19,  1865,  in  the  Fifth  Reg.  Ind.  Cav. 
Studied  medicine  after  his  return  home. 

SUTTON,  WILLIS  E.— Aurora  (1848-1879).  S.  T. 
1880,  242.     R.  M.  of  Ind.,  Dist.  4,  p.  70. 

SUMMERS,  OSA  R.— Middletown  (1874-1904).  S. 
T.  1905,  458. 

SWAFFORD,  BENJAMIN  F.— Terre  Haute  (1833- 
1901).  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix.  318.  Was  surgeon  of  the 
Eleventh  Reg.  Ind.  Cav.     R.  M.  of  Ind..  Dist.  8,  p.  47. 


348         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

SWARTS,  DAVID  J.— Auburn  (1832-1905).  S.  T. 
1905,  459.  He  enlisted  in  the  100th  Reg.  Ind.  Vols., 
was  commissioned  a  lieutenant,  and  later  assistant  sur- 
geon of  same  regiment. 

TAGGART,  SAMUEL  C— Charlestown  (1828-1901). 
S.  T.  1901,  500. 

TEAL,  NORMAN.— Kendallville  (1829-1899).  S.  T. 
1899,  403.  Dr.  Teal  was  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Eighty-eighth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  from  Aug.  30,  1862,  until 
the  regiment  was  mustered  out  of  service.  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  xvii,  405. 

TERRILL,  WILLIAM  H.,  Sr.  —  Petersburg,  Ky. 
(1829-1885).     S.  T.  1886,  210. 

TERRILL,  WILLIAM  H.,  Jr.— Lawrenceburg   ( 1852- 

1887).    S.  T.  1888,  200. 

THOMAS,  ANDREW  J.— Evansville  (1840-1898). 
Was  an  ex-superintendent  of  the  Southern  Indiana  Hos- 
pital for  the  Insane.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvii,  36,  for 
interesting  memoir  by  Dr.  E.  C.  Reyer. 

THOMAS,  MARY  F.— Richmond  (1816-1888).  S.  T. 
1889,  210.  Dr.  Thomas  was  a  faithful  worker  in  every- 
thing that  aimed  to  make  the  human  race  better.  She 
was  an  industrious  writer  and  contributed  a  number  of 
articles  to  the  State  Medical  Society:  "Women  Physi- 
cians in  Hospitals  for  Insane  Women,"  Trans.  1880, 
184;  "Report  of  Committee  Regarding  the  Employment 
of  Female  Physicians  in  Hospitals  for  the  Insane," 
1882,  80;  "The  Influence  of  the  Medical  Colleges  of  the 
Regular  School  of  Indianapolis  on  the  Medical  Educa- 
tion of  the  Women  of  the  State,"  1883,  228;  "Women 
Physicians  for  Insane  Women,"  1884,  203;  "Some 
Thoughts  on  Post-Partum  Hemorrhage,"  1885,  125 ;  and 
"Heredity,"  1887,  97. 

THOMAS,  WARREN  H.— Elkhart  (1837-1906).  S. 
T.  1907,  481. 

THOMAS,  WILLIAM  H.— Indianapolis  (1834-1903). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  189. 

THOMPSON,  DANIEL  A.— Indianapolis  (1862- 
1904).  S.  T.  1905,  460.  Dr.  Thompson  was  a  native  of 
Rush  county,  Indiana.    As  a  specialist  in  diseases  of  the 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         34 1) 

eye  he  took  a  high  rank.  In  1890  he  succeeded  to  his 
father's  position  as  professor  of  diseases  of  the  eye,  in 
the  Medical  College  of  Indiana.  Dr.  Thompson  was 
noted  for  his  charity  work  to  the  poor,  and  was  a 
favorite  with  his  pupils.  "He  was  not  a  frequent 
writer,  but  he  was  a  clear  and  forceful  teacher,  both 
didactic  and  clinical — an  actor  rather  than  a  declaimer 
in  the  drama  of  our  profession."  His  article  on  "Tlie 
Iris,"  Trans.  1891,  195,  is  a  most  excellent  contribution 
to  our  medical  literature.  See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxiii,  205. 
(Picture.) 

THOMPSON,  JOHN  H.— Otterbein  (1817-1883).  S. 
T.  1884,  215. 

THOMPSON,  JOHN  J.— Sullivan  (1824-1899).  S. 
T.  1899,  406.    I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvii,  405. 

THOMPSON,  WILLIA^I  C— Indianapolis  (1812- 
1897).  He  was  present  at  the  formation  of  the  State 
Medical  Society  in  1849.  He  practiced  at  several  places 
before  finally  locating  permanently  at  Indianapolis.  He 
was  commissioned  surgeon  of  volunteers  by  Presi- 
dent Lincoln.  For  several  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  State  Legislature.  He  had  retired  from  active  prac- 
tice. See  Stone,  688,  with  portrait.  Also  I.  M.  J.,  Vol. 
XV,  470. 

THORNE,  J.  C.  F.— Kokomo  (1857-1908).  J.  I.  S. 
M.  A.,  Vol.  i,  330. 

TILFORD,  SALEM  A.— Martinsville  (1827-1893).  S. 
T.,  1894,  221. 

TILLSON,  HOSEA.— Centerville  (1830-1902).  S.  T. 
1903,  356.  Dr.  Tillson  was  a  faithful  soldier,  and  later 
assistant  surgeon,  in  the  Fifty-seventh  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

TINGLEY,  URIAH  B.—Harrisburg  (1816-1899).  I. 
M.  J.,  Vol.  xvii,  324. 

TODD,  LEVI  L.— Indianapolis  (1830-1901).  S.  T. 
1902,  425.  See  also  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xx,  226;  Stone,  690. 
He  contributed  to  the  Transactions,  "The  Therapeutic 
Properties  of  Opium,"  1877,  79;  and  "Modern  Thera- 
peutics," 1886,  123. 

TODD,  ROBERT  N.— Indianapolis  (1827-1883).  S. 
T.    1884,   209.     Born  in  Kentucky,   he   came   with   his 


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MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 


parents  to  Indiana  in  1834.  He  graduated  at  the  In- 
diana Central  Medical  College  in  1850.  Practiced  for 
a  time  at  Sonthport,  Was  surgeon  of  the  Twenty-sixth 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  In  1869  he  was  chosen  as  teacher  of 
theory  and  practice,  in  which  he  continued  until  the 
spring  of  1874,  when  he  was  assigned  to  the  same  de- 
partment in  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
until  1878,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  princi- 


ROBERT  N.  TODD. 


pies  and  practice  of  medicine,  which  he  continued  to 
hold  until  his  death.  Was  elected  president  of  the  State 
Medical  Society  in  1870,  and  presided  in  1871.  The 
presidential  address  was  on  "The  Medical  Profession 
and  the  Administration  of  Justice,"  Trans.  1871,  1.  See 
Stone,  with  portrait,  510.    See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol,  ii,  65. 


Ci.  B.  WALKER 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA.         351 

TOMS,  ALPHEUS.— Goshen  (184M90C).  I.  M.  J., 
Vol.  XXV,  297.    A  veteran  of  the  Civil  War, 

TREMBLEY,  G.  D.— Bippus  (184G-1888).  S.  T. 
1889,  209. 

TROWBRIDGE,  WILLIAM  V.  —  Burnetts  Creek 
(1833-1897).    S.  T.  1898,  374. 

TUCKER,  THOMAS  M.— Salem  (1828-1895).  S.  T. 
1896,  257. 

TURNER,  GEORGE  W.— Freedom  (1864-1900).  S. 
T.  1901,  501.  Served  for  some  time  in  the  hospital 
corps  in  a  Porto  Rican  hospital. 
■^VAN  BUSKIRK,  AAROX  E.— Fort  Wayne  (1847- 
1904).  S.  T.  1904,  364.  In  the  Fort  Wayne  College  of 
Medicine  he  was  for  a  number  of  years  an  active  mem 
her  of  the  faculty,  and  taught  at  various  times  the  fol- 
lowing branches:  anatomy,  physiology,  pathology,  sur- 
gery, theory  and  practice,  and  diseases  of  the  nervous 
system.     See  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  417. 

VAN  NUYS,  S.  C— Bloomington  (18—  1898).  He 
was  for  many  years  at  the  head  of  the  department  of 
chemistry  in  the  State  University,  Bloomington.  While 
there  he  wrote  a  text-book  on  the  analysis  of  the  urine. 

VICKREY,  ABSALOM  M.— Tipton  (1822-1886).  S. 
T.  1886,  212. 

VICKREY,  MARTIN  V.  B.— Tipton  ( 1838-1897) . 

VINCENT,  HENRY  C— Guilford  ( 1826-1891 ) .  S.  T. 
1891,  287;  and  1892,  280.  Was  assistant  surgeon  for  a 
time  in  the  Eighty-third  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

WALKER,  DAVID  R.— Lebanon  (1844-1902).  S.  T. 
1902,  426. 

WALKER,  EDWARD.— Delphi  (1829-1908).  J.  I.  S. 
M.  A.,  Vol.  i,  112. 

WALKER,  GEORGE  B.— Evansville  (1807-1887). 
S.-  T.  1888,  206.  "Report  on  Diseases  and  Displace- 
ments of  the  Uterus." — Trans.    1855.   p.   37. 

WALKER,  ISAAC  C— Indianapolis  (1828-1906). 
Dr.  W'alker  first  practiced  in  Peru,  and  removed  to 
Indianapolis  in  1872.  He  was  professor  of  diseases  of 
the  mind  and  nervous  system  in  the  Indiana  Medical 
College  for  thirty-three  years.     I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxv,  195. 


352         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Contributed  to  the  State  Medical  Society:  "Final  Ill- 
ness of  Dr.  James  S.  Athon.  Post-Mortem  Examina- 
tion and  Eemarks  Upon  the  Preventive  Treatment  of 
Apoplexy."  Trans.  1875,  122.  Also,  "Case  of  Anom- 
alous Growth  of  the  Brain."     Trans.  1880,  44. 

WALKER,  JAMES  K.— Loogootee  (1842-1887).  S. 
T.  1887,  197.  Served  through  the  Civil  War  as  a  Con- 
federate soldier,  and  came  from  Kentucky  to  Loogootee 
in  1871,  where  he  continued  to  practice  until  a  short 
time  before  his  death. 

WALKER,  JOHN  C— Indianapolis  (1828-1883). 
He  was  for  a  time  editor  of  the  Laporte  Times.  In 
1853  was  elected  to  the  State  Legislature.  In  1855 
became  a  joint  owner  of  the  Indianapolis  Sentinel.  He 
went  to  the  front  as  colonel  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols.,  and  served  one  year  in  that  capacity.  In 
1879  he  was  appointed  assistant  physician  in  the  In- 
diana Hospital  for  the  Insane,  but  died  soon  after 
from  hasty  consumption.     Condensed  from  Stone,  521. 

WALL,  DAVID.— Indianapolis  (1836-1903).  I.  M. 
J.,  Vol.  xxi,  440. 

WALTER,  C.  G.— Lawrenceburg  (1820-1895).  S.  T. 
1896,  252. 

WARDNER,  HORACE.— Laporte  (1829-1905).  S. 
T.  1905,  461.  Served  as  a  surgeon  in  several  capacities 
with  Illinois  regiments  in  the  Civil  War. 

WARFORD,  FRANKLIN  M.— Cicero  (1834-1909). 
He  resided  in  Cicero  for  forty-four  years,  and  thirty- 
nine  years  of  that  time  was  an  active  practitioner. 
He  served  a  short  time  in  the  40th  Reg.  Ind.  Inf.,  and 
later  as  Ass^'t  Surg,  of  the  3rd  Reg.  Iowa  Cav.,  and 
later  in  the  4th  Arkansas  Cav.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  located  in  Cicero.     See  Robson,  p.  528. 

WASHBURN,  ISRAEL  B.— Rensselaer  (1838-1903). 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xxii,  287.  Was  surgeon  of  the  Forty- 
sixth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols,  in  the  Civil  War. 

WASHBURN,  ROBERT  R.— Waldron  (1833-1900). 
S.  T.  1901,  502.    Was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  War. 

WATERS,  JOHN  C— Indianapolis  (1830-1884).  S. 
T.  1885,  222. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         353 

WATTS,  EBER  K.— Eichmond  (1854-1905).  S.  T. 
1905,  462. 

WEDDINGTON,  SAMUEL  C— Jonesboro  (1823- 
1886).  S.  T.  1886,  217.  Dr.  Weddington  was  assist- 
ant surgeon  of  the  147th  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.  He  con- 
tributed the  following  named  articles  to  the  State 
Medical  Society:  "Cancer,"  Trans.  1877,  103;  "A 
Case  of  Placenta  Praevia,"  1877,  119;  "Kakonemia,  or 
Pernicious  Anemia,"  1880,  35;  and  "Tumors  ot  the 
Breast,"  1885,  187.     See  Robson,  592. 

WEEKS,  JOSEPH.  —  Mechanicsburg  ( 1820-1908 ) . 
Practiced  in  Mechanicsburg  from  1856  to  date  of  his 
death.     J.  I.  S.  M.  A.,  Vol.  i,  477. 

WEIST,  JACOB  R.— Richmond  (1834-1900).  S.  T. 
1900,  341.  Dr.  Weist  was  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Sixty-fifth  Reg.  Ohio  Vols.,  and  later  Avas  transferred 
to  other  Ohio  regiments,  where  he  served  in  the  med- 
ical service  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  elected 
president  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society  in  1879. 
and  presided  at  the  session  of  1880.  He  was  professor 
of  railroad  surgery  in  the  Indiana  Central  Medical 
College  for  a  number  of  years.  He  contributed  a  num- 
ber of  papers  to  the  State  Medical  Society,  one  of  them 
being  a  prize  essay  of  great  value  to  the  profession. 
All  are  found  in  the  State  Transactions:  "A  Contri- 
bution to  the  Statistics  in  Relation  to  Foreign  Bodies 
in  the  Air  Passages,"  1867,  70;  "The  Causel,  Nature 
and  Treatment  of  Cerebrospinal  Meningitis,"  prize 
essay,  1868,  123;  "Report  on  Board  of  Public  Char- 
ities," 1870,  129;  "President's  Address— Problems  in 
Relation  to  the  Prevention  of  Disease,"  1880,  1;  "Hot 
Water  in  Surgical  Practice,"  1882,  29;  and  "Civil  Mal- 
practice Suits;  How  Can  the  Physician  Protect  Him- 
self Against  Them?"  1884,  132.     See  Robson,  111. 

WELBORN,  GEORGE  W.  —  Stewardsville  (1844- 
1905).  S.  T.  1905,  463,  Served  in  the  hospital  corps 
of  the  Sixtieth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

WELMAN,  RICHMOND  M.— Jasper  (1824-1884). 
S.  T.  1884,  218.  In  1861  he  entered  the  military 
service  as  captain  of  Company  K,  Twenty- seventh  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols.     Later  he  was  commissioned  surgeon  of  the 


354         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Ninth  Reg.  Ind.  Cav.,  and  served  in  that  capacity  until 
the  close  of  the  war. 

WERMUTH,  ADOLPH  F.— Ft.  Wayne  (1877-1901). 
S.  T.  1902,  427. 

WEST,  CALVIN.— Hagerstown  (1806-1863).  He 
was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  August  9,  1806,  and  died 
at  Hagerstown,  August  25,  1863.  He  came  to  Hagers- 
town  about  the  year  1834,  and  practiced  there  until 
the  date  of  his  death.  In  the  Adjutant-General  (Ind 
iana)  Report,  he  is  accredited  as  "additional  assistant 
surgeon  pro  tem"  of  the  57th  Reg.  Ind.  Inf.  He  was 
vice-president  of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1857, 
1861  and  again  in  1863. 

He  contributed  the  following  named  articles  to  the 
State   Society:    "Amputation  at  the   Shoulder   Joint," 

1857,  41;    "Fracture  at  the   Base   of  the   Acromion," 

1858,  48;  "Report  on  Microscopy,"  1858,  51;   1859,  40, 
and  1861,  34. 

WEST,  VINCENT  T.— Princeton  (1812-1889).  S.  T. 
1889,  217. 

WETHERILL,  CHARLES  M.— Lafayette  (1825- 
1871).  Dr.  Wetherill  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
November  4,  1825,  and  died  in  South  Bethlehem,  Pa., 
March  5,  1871.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  college  de- 
partment of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  had 
an  honorary  degree  of  M.D.  from  the  New  York  Med- 
ical College,  1853.  He  was  a  resident  of  Lafayette 
from  1855  to  1862.  He  was  never  in  active  practice 
but  devoted  his  life  to  original  research  in  organic 
chemistry. 

He  also  pursued  his  studies  as  a  student  in  the 
Royal  College  of  France,  and  later  at  the  University 
of  Giessen,  Germany,  under  the  tutorage  of  Justus  von 
Liebig.  In  1865  he  was  appointed  chemist  to  the 
Agricultural  Department  in  Washington,  where  he 
remained  one  year.  He  became  professor  of  chemistry 
at  Lehigh  University  in  1866,  and  continued  in  that 
position  until  his  death.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he 
had  been  chosen  professor  of  chemistry  in  the  College 
department  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 


M/JJJ/CAI.    HISTORY    OF    J \ DIANA.         Zoo 

He  contributed  more  than  tliirty  scientific  articles 
relating  to  chemistry,  in  various  German  and  Ameri- 
can periodicals.  One,  a  very  interesting  article  on 
"Artificial  Lactation,"  was  contributed  to  the  State 
Medical  Society  at  the  session  of  1860.     Trans.   1860, 

24.— From  notes  furnished  by  Dr.  E.  B.  Wetherill, 

p'^n— Lafayette. 

WHITCOMB,  JAMES  H.— Indianapolis  ( 1840- 
1893).     S.  T.  1894,  217. 

WHITE,  J.  F.— Kosciusko  county  (1857-1883).  S. 
T.  1883,  277. 

WHITESELL,  PHILIP  P.— Clarksville  (1823-1896). 
S.  T.  1896,  264.  For  a  time  in  the  Civil  War,  was  cap- 
tain of  Company  E,  Thirty-ninth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols.,  and 
afterwards  assistant  surgeon,  and  surgeon  of  the  101st 
Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

WILES,  WILLIAM  v.— Spencer  (1827-1892).  S.  T. 
1893,  252.  Dr.  Wiles  was  assistant  surgeon  of  the 
Eighty-fifth  Reg.  Ind.  Vols. 

WILKINSON,  JAJVIES  J.— Orland  (1842-1906).  S. 
T.  1907,  491. 

WILLIAMS,  CHARLES  S.— Columbia  City  (1842- 
1905).     S.  T.  1906,  489. 

WILLIAMS,  ELKAN AH.— (1822-1888).  It  is  not 
generally  known  that  the  justly  celebrated  ophthal- 
mologist, the  late  Dr.  Williams  of  Cincinnati  was  a 
native  of  Indiana.  He  was  born  in  Lawrence  county, 
Indiana,  Dec.  19,  1822.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Asbury 
University,  studied  medicine  at  Bedford,  graduated  in 
medicine  at  the  University  of  Louisville,  1850,  and  for 
the  next  tAvo  years  was  engaged  in  general  practice  in 
Indiana.  In  the  spring  of  1852  he  located  in  Cincin- 
nati, but  soon  went  abroad  to  study  ophthalmology. 
In  the  spring  of  1855  he  returned  to  Cincinnati,  and 
commenced .  practice  as  an  exclusive  specialist  in  dis- 
eases of  the  eye  and  ear.  He  is  said  to  have  been  the 
first  physician  in  America  who  confined  his  practice 
strictly  to  these  branches.  As  practitioner,  author,  and 
teacher,  he  has  hardly  been  excelled.  (For  details  of 
his  work  see  Stone,  553). 


356         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA. 

WILLIAMS,  HUGH  T.— Rising  Sun  (1812-1879).  S. 
T.  188.0,  244.  He  participated  in  the  chase  of  the  rebel 
General,  Morgan,  through  Indiana,  and  "was  afterward 
complimented  by  Governor  Morton  for  the  gallantry 
and  skill  displayed  on  that  occasion."  He  served  one 
term  in  the  legislature,  representing  Ohio  and  Switzer- 
land counties.  ! 

WILLIAMS,  JOHN.— Clay  county   (1811-1909). 

WILLIAMS,  JOSEPH  B.— Grafton  (1844-1901).  S. 
T.  1901,  503. 

WILLIAMS,  LEROY  B.— Deedsville  (1847-1880).  S. 
T.  1881,  230. 

WILLIAMS,  LEWIS.— Marion  (1825-1906).  S.  T. 
1906,  494. 

WILLIAMS,  T.  B.— J.  I.  S.  M.  A.,  Vol.  i,  29. 

WILLIAMSON,  W.  T.— Fort  Branch  (1844-1908). 
J.  I.  S.  M.  A.,  Vol.  i,  330. 

WILSON,  J.  H.— Plymouth  (1838-1899).  S.  T.  1900, 
343.  He  contributed  in  1897  an  article  on  "The  Early 
Treatment  of  Slight  Injuries,"  Trans.  1897,  312.  At 
this  meeting  he  showed  three  links  of  a  trace  chain  that 
had  been  driven  into  the  chest  of  a  man  in  1866,  and 
remained  until  his  death  in  1897,  when  they  were  dis- 
covered at  a  post-mortem  examination.  Report  of  case. 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xvi,  21.     See  ib.Txviii,  237. 

WILSON,  ROBERT  Q.—  (  1822-1902) .  S.  T.  1902, 
428. 

WIMMER,  JAMES  M.— Marion  (1853-1897).  S. 
T.  1898,  383. 

WINANS,  HENRY  C— Muncie  (1829-1884).  He 
was  for  a  time  surgeon  of  the  Twenty-fifth  Reg.  111. 
Vols. 

WINTON,  HORACE. — North  Manchester  (1831- 
1893).  See  Am.  Biog.  Hist,  of  Eminent  and  Self-made 
Men  of  the  State  of  Indiana,  1880,  Eleventh.  Dist.,  p.  80. 
Contributed  to  the  State  Medical  Society:  "Two  Sur- 
gical Cases."     Trans.  1859,  45. 

WINTON,  ROBERT.— Muncie  (1820-1885).  S.  T. 
1886,  201.  See  also  Am.  Biog.  Hist,  of  Eminent  and 
Self-made  Men  of  Indiana,  1880,  Sixth  Dist.,  p.  90. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         357 

WISHARD,  JOSEPH  M.— Greenwood  (1838-1905). 
S.  T.  1905,  464.  Was  surgeon  of  the  Fifth  Reg.  Ind. 
Cav.  For  several  months  was  a  prisoner  in  Libby 
Prison. 

WOODBURN,  FREDERICK  C— Indianapolis  (1866- 
1898).  The  records  show  that  Frederick  C.  Woodburn, 
private  Hospital  Corps,  United  States  Army,  who  gave 
his  occupation  as  physician  at  the  date  of  his  enlist- 
ment, June  7,  1898,  died  Sept.  29,  1898,  at  General 
Hospital,  Ponce,  Porto  Rico. — War  Department,  Jan. 
12,  1910.  See  "Diagnosis  and  Treatment  of  Valvular 
Disease  of  the  Heart."     Trans.   1891,  168. 

WOODBURN,  JAMES  H. —  Indianapolis,  1822- 
1901).  S.  T.  1901,  504.  For  four  years,  1860-1864,  he 
was  superintendent  of  the  Central  Hospital  for  the 
Insane.  For  eight  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  city 
council  of  Indianapolis.  In  1884  he  was  elected  presi- 
dent of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society,  and  presided 
at  session  of  1885.  His  address  was  on  the  subject, 
"Have  We  Really  Advanced  in  I^owledge  and  Im- 
proved in  Practice?"  Trans.  1885,  1.  See  Stone,  704; 
I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xix,  444;  on  page  445  his  picture  is 
shown  by  the  side  of  Dr.  W.  H.  Wishard,  for  whom  he 
was  thought  to  be  when  he  died  suddenly  in  a  street 
car  in  Indianapolis. 

WOODEN,  JOHN  L.— Greensburg  (1826-1886).  S. 
T.  1887,  194.  He  was  surgeon  of  the  Sixty-eighth  Reg. 
Ind.  Vols.  Was  captured  at  Chickamauga  and  con- 
fined in  Libby  Prison  for  three  months.  After  his 
release  was  made  a  brigade  surgeon. 

WOODEN,  WILLIAM  H.— Greensburg  (1857-1903). 
S.  T.  1903,  357. 

WOODWORTH,  BENJAMIN  S.— Fort  Wayne  (1816- 
1891).  S.  T.  1892,  294.  For  forty  years  was  a  noted 
practitioner  of  Fort  Wayne.  Was  elected  president  of 
the  State  Medical  Society  in  1860,  and  presided  in 
1861.  He  contributed  the  following  papers  to  the  State 
Society:  "President's  Address,"  Trans.  1861,  12; 
"Dysentery,  as  it  Prevailed  in  Allen  County,  Indiana, 


358         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

1864,"   Trans.    1865,   40.      See    Robson,    36.      R.   M.   of 
Ind.,  Dist.  12,  p.  81. 

WOOLEN,  LEVIN  J.— Vevay,  (1834-1909).  Dr. 
Woolen  was  born  in  Dorchester  County,  Maryland, 
June  30,  1834,  and  died  at  Vevay,  April  20,  1909.  His 
professional  life  was  spent  in  the  counties  of  Jefferson 
and  Switzerland, — Moorefield,  Madison  and  Vevay.  He 
was  defeated  for  Congress  in  1876,  by  Leonidas  Sex- 


BENJAMIN  S.  WOODWORTH. 

ton.  In  1878  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  rep- 
resenting Switzerland  and  Ripley  Counties.  In  1886 
President  Cleveland  appointed  Dr.  Woolen  as  chief 
of  division  of  swamp  lands  in  the  general  office  at 
Washington.  He  resigned  this  position  in  1889,  and 
after  practicing  his  profession  for  a  time  in  the  latter 
city   returned   to    his   Vevay    home.      After    returning 


MEDICAL    Eim'ORY    OF    INDIANA.         359 

home  he  was  twice  elected  auditor  of  his  county.  In 
the  Transactions  for  1872,  p.  25,  he  contributed,  "His- 
tory of  an  Epidemic  of  Parotitis  in  Switzerland 
County,"  also,  "A  Case  of  Adenia,"  Trans.  1884,  p. 
188.  He  was  also  author  of  a  book  entitled  "The 
Mother's  Hand  Book,'  which  he  intended  for  the  use 
of  mothers  of  households  in  the  State.  See  tribute  to 
his  memory,  by  Dr.  W.  R.  Davidson,  of  Madison,  from 
which  I  have  made  the  above  records,  Indianapolis 
Med.  Jour.,  Vol.  xii,  p.  265. 

WRIGHT,  CHARLES  E.— Indianapolis  (1843-1893). 
S.  T.  1893,  255.  Dr.  Wright  had  attained  a  well  earned 
prominence  in  medicine  when  his  life  ended  at  the 
early  age  of  50.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  was  super- 
intendent of  the  Central  Hospital  for  the  Insane.  He 
had  filled  a  number  of  official  positions  in  the  city  of 
Indianapolis.  He  contributed  a  number  of  valuable 
papers  to  the  State  Society:  "Purulent  Aural 
Catarrli,"  Trans.  1870,  119;  "Paralysis  of  Accommoda- 
tion of  the  Eye,"  1871,  93;  "Diseases  of  the  Eye  and 
Ear,"  1872,  67 ;  and  "Report  on  Diseases  of  the  Eye  and 
Ear,"  1873,  22.  Biography,  I.  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi,  279  (by 
Dr.  W.  B.  Fletcher)  and  281  (editorial).  Stone  (with 
portrait),  571.  Excellent  portrait,  I,  M.  J.,  Vol.  xi, 
facing  p.  257. 

WRIGHT,  CHARLES  H.— North  Madison  (1839- 
1889).  S.  T.  1890,  154.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil 
War. 

YOCKEY,  DAVID  H.— Richmond  (1854-1904).  S. 
T.  1905,  465. 

YOHN,  EDWIN  F.— Valparaiso  (1864-1906).  S.  T. 
1906,  499. 

YOHN,  WILLIAM  A.— Valparaiso  (1850-1892).  He 
was  born  in  Porter  county,  March  29,  1850,  and  died  at 
Valparaiso,  August  12,  1892.  He  filled  the  chair  of 
Science  in  the  Normal  School,  at  Valparaiso,  for  seven- 
teen years.  He  was  professor  of  Chemistry  in  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  of  Chicago,  for  five 
years.  For  several  years  he  was  secretary  of  the 
County  Board  of  Health.    Was  a  member  of  the  Porter 


360         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    I^WIAWA. 

County   Medical   Society. — ^Dr.   G.  E.  Douglas,  Valpa- 
raiso. 

YOUNKMAN,   A.   B.— Bremen    (1835-1899).     S.   T. 
1900,  344. 


CHAPTER  XXII. 


HISTORICAL    ^'OTES    AND    REFERENCES 

At  the  meeting  of  the  State  Medical  Society  in  1850, 
a  committee  consisting  of  Drs.  Davidson,  Sloan,  Mears, 
Parry,  Dunlap  and  Harrison,  was  appointed  to  report 
at  next  annual  meeting,  "on  the  use  of  anesthetic 
agents."  They  made  a  very  excellent  report  at  the 
session  of  1851.  Transactions  1851,  p.  25.  This  was 
only  five  years  after  the  discovery  of  anesthetics — four 
years   after    discovery    of   chloroform. 

They  say:  "We  have  heard  of  no  case  in  Indiana, 
where  death  has  been  connected  with  the  exhibition 
of  chloroform,  nor  of  any  disagreeable  consequences 
resulting  from  its  use,  other  than  of  a  few  hours  con- 
tinuance." Dr.  W.  H.  Byford,  of  Evansville,  favored 
its  use  in  obstetrics.  Attempts  at  local  anesthesia 
failed. 

Dr.  John  Sloan,  of  Xew  Albany,  records  the  first 
ovariotomy  in  the  Transactions,  1852,  p.  55.  The 
patient  was  aged  33.  It  was  performed  on  Feb.  18, 
1852,  and  he  was  assisted  by  Drs.  Leonard,  Shields, 
Town,  Graham,  Bowman,  and  Rucker.  Chloroform 
was  administered  by  Dr.  Bowman.  Dr.  Sloan  made 
an  incision  in  the  linea  alba  five  inches  in  length  down 
to  the  peritoneum,  and  this  was  divided  on  a  director. 
The  tumor  being  composed  of  considerable  solid  sub- 
stance, Dr.  Sloan  extended  his  incision  one  and  one- 
half  inches  aljove  the  umhilicus,  and  downward  to  the 
pubes.  A  double  ligature  was  passed  through  the 
pedicle  and  tied  on  either  side.  On  March  20th,  the 
wound  was  entirely  healed  and  she  was  walking  about 
the  home. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Brower  of  Lawrenceburg,.  reports  a  case 
of  ovarian  disease  complicated  with  ascites,  which 
illustrates    the    natural    history    of    ovarian    tumors. 


362         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    I^WIANA. 

Trmisactions,  1852,  p.  65.  An  unmarried  woman 
aged  46,  during  the  summer  of  1850,  discovered  a 
tumor  in  the  abdomen.  It  grew  rapidly  until  paracen- 
tesis was  resorted  to,  and  forty  pounds  of  fluid 
removed.  The  tumor  rapidly  refilled,  and  was  tapped 
several  times.  Death  closed  the  scene  in  September, 
1851.  A  post  mortem  revealed  an  ovarian  tumor  with  a 
small  pedicle,  showing  an  excellent  case  for  an  early 
operation,  but  the  opportunity  was  not  grasped.  Such 
conditions   could  hardly   exist  at  the   present   day. 

In  the  Transactions  for  1853,  pp.  24-57,  Drs.  W.  H. 
Byford,  M.  H.  Harding,  and  J.  N.  Graham  contributed 
an  interesting  report  on  the  "Practice  of  Medicine." 
The  topograjjliy  of  several  counties  in  eastern  Indiana 
is  given,  and  the  reports  on  the  early  appearance  of 
typhoid  fever  in  this  state  as  given  by  Drs.  Woody, 
of  Winchester,  Harding  of  Lawrenceburg,  Shields  of 
New  Albany,  Kersey  of  Milton,  Crooks  and  DeBruler 
of  Eockport,  are  historical  and  instructive.  In  this 
same  article,  also,  are  included  notes  on  epidemic  ery- 
sipelas, dysentery,  and  various  forms  of  malarial  fever. 
At  that  early  day  the  value  of  quinin  was  recognized 
and  acknowledged. 

At  the  session  of  1853,  Dr.  J.  H.  Brower,  who  had 
been  appointed  at  the  previous  session,  a  committee 
on  vital  statistics  made  a  report,  Transactions,  1853, 
p.  74,  in  which  he  urged  the  adoption  of  legal  enact- 
ments requiring  the  registration  of  marriages,  births 
and  deaths.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  these  sug- 
gestions were  allowed  to  slumber  for  more  than  one 
third  of  a  century. 

Dr.  M.  J.  Bray,  in  the  Transactions,  1853,  p.  94, 
reports  the  successful  removal  of  a  fibrous  tumor,  from 
the  face  and  neck  of  a  male  patient,  which  weighed 
twenty-one  pounds.  Most  of  the  incision  healed  by 
the  first  intention,  without  a  marked  scar.  Dr.  Bray 
also  contributes  an  article  that  might  be  read  with 
profit  at  the  present  day,  on  "Symptoms,  Causes, 
Pathology  and"  Treatment  of  Scirrhus,"  Transactions, 
1854,  pp.  25-42. 


MEDICAL    HhSTORY    OF    J \ DIANA.         3(i:j 

Dr.  George  Sutton,  of  Aurora,  Transactions,  1853, 
pp.  109-175,  contributes  a  valuable  historical  paper  on 
"Asiatic  Cholera,"  as  it  prevailed  in  Indiana  during 
the  years  1849-50-51-52.  He  details  its  progress  from 
New  Orleans,  up  the  Mississippi  and  Ohio  rivers, 
until  June,  1849,  when  it  appeared  in  several  Indiana 
towns  situated  on  the  Ohio  river.  He  gives  reports  of 
its  ravages  in  thirty-six  counties  of  Indiana.  The 
same  author  makes  a  valuable  report  on  "Cholera." 
Transactions,  1867,  p.  85,  and  Transactions,  1868, 
p.  51. 

Milk  sickness  was  prevalent  in  Indiana  half  a  cen- 
tury or  more  ago.  Dr.  George  Sutton,  of  Aurora, 
made  a  preliminary  rei^ort  on  the  subject.  Trans- 
actions, 1853,  p.  176.  Dr.  James  S.  McClelland,  of 
Jefferson,  Clinton  County,  made  a  more  extensive 
report  on  the  disease  "Trembles  or  Milk  Sickness,"  in 
Transactions,  1854,  p.  43.  Still  later.  Dr.  E.  S.  Elder, 
of  Morristown,  contributed  an  exhaustive  paper  on  the 
subject,  "Morbo  Lacteo,"  Transactions,  1874,  pp.  113- 
127. 

Dr.  William  W.  Mayo,  of  Lafayette  (father  of  the 
Mayo  brothers,  of  Rochester,  Minn. ) ,  contributes, 
Transactions,  1854,  p.  68,  an  interesting  "Report  on 
the  Pathological  Indications  of  the  Urine,"  which 
shows  a  good  degree  of  skill  in  studying  the  urine 
at  that  early  day.  Dr.  Mayo  says,  "The  kidneys  are 
not  secreting  organs."  In  a  foot  note  the  committee 
on  publication  dissent  from  this  statement. 

Nursing  sore  mouth  (stomatitis  materna)  is  an 
affection  that  was  discussed  half  a  century  ago,  more 
than  at  the  present  day.  Dr.  J.  S.  McClelland  con- 
tributes an  article  on  the  subject  in  Transactions  for 
1856,  p.  48.  It  was  thought  to  prevail  as  an  epidemic 
in  certain  localities.  The  entire  alimentary  canal 
was  involved  to  a  less  or  greater  extent,  anemia  was 
marked,  digestion  was  disturbed,  and  death  occurred 
in  a  majority  of  the  cases.  Nursing  women,  and 
women  during  the  last  months  of  pregnancy  were 
subjects  of  the  disease. 


304         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

Dr.  David  Hutchinson,  of  Mooresville,  in  1857, 
wrote  the  Fiske  Fund  Prize  Essay  on  the  subject, 
receiving  one  hundred  dollars  from  the  state  of  Rhode 
Island  for  the  same.  It  was  published  in  the  Ameri- 
can Journal  of  the  Medical  Sciences,  vol.  xxxiv,  p.  369 
(October,   1857). 

Dr.  Daniel  Meeker,  of  Laporte,  contributed  three 
articles  on  the  subject,  "On  Fractures  and  False 
Joints."  Transactions,  1857,  p.  29;  1858,  p.  40,  and 
1859,  p.  34,  These  are  valuable  articles,  and  can  be 
read  with  profit,  although  written  half  a  century  ago. 

Dr.  Jacob  E.  Weist,  of  Richmond,  contributes  to  the 
Transactions  for  1867,  p.  70,  a  carefully  prepared 
paper  on  "Foreign  Bodies  in  the  Air  Passages."  Prof. 
S.  D.  Gross,  in  1854,  published  a  valuable  paper  based 
on  a  study  of  153  cases.  Dr.  Weist  followed  Prof. 
Gross  and  collected  163  cases,  and  tabulated  them  as 
follows:  Cases  of  spontaneous  expulsion  followed  by 
recovery,  61;  cases  of  death  without  operation,  and 
without  the  expulsion  of  the  foreign  body,  20;  cases 
of  tracheotomy,  followed  by  the  expulsion  of  the 
foreign  body  and  the  recovery  of  the  patient,  48; 
cases  of  tracheotomy  followed  hj  death,  19;  cases  of 
laryngotomy,  followed  by  the  expulsion  of  the  foreign 
body  and  the  recovery  of  the  patient,  10;  cases  of 
laryngo-tracheotomy,  follow^ed  by  the  expulsion  of 
the  foreign  body  and  the  recovery  of  the  patient,  5. 
IS'o  more  valuable  paper  on  this  subject  has  been  pub- 
lished. 

Dr.  ^Veist  also  contributed  a  Prize  Essay  on  Cerebro- 
spinal  Meningitis,    Transactions,    1868,    p.    123. 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  operations  in  the  annals 
of  surgery,  was  performed  by  an  Indiana  surgeon,  the 
late  Dr.  John  S.  Bobbs,  of  Indiana.  It  was  the  first 
operation  for  cholecystotomy,  and  was  performed  on 
June  15,  1867.  The  original  paper  was  published  in 
the  Transactions  for  1868,  p.  68,  and  was  entitled, 
"Case  of  Lithotomy  oi  the  Gall-Bladder."  The  repro- 
duction of  the  report  of  this  case,  and  numerous  com- 
ments on  it  in  recent  medical  literature  renders  it 
unnecessary  to  say  more  concerning  it  in  this  place. 


MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF   INDIANA.         3G5 

The  patient,  Mrs.  Z.  Burnsworth,  nee  Miss  Wiggins, 
at  this  date  (1911),  is  still  living,  at  the  age 
of      74      years,      at      McCordsville,       Indiana.  She 

was  the  first  person  operated  on  for  gall  stones.  The 
operation  was  done  June  15,  1867,  at  Indianapolis,  on 
the  present  site  of  the  Commercial  Club  Building. 
Dr.  John  S.  Bobbs  was  the  operator,  and  was  assisted 
by  Drs.  R.  N.  Todd,  G.  W.  Mears,  F.  S.  Newcomer, 
J.   A,    Comingor,  J.   P.   Avery,  Moore,   and  a  medical 


MRS.  Z.  BURNSWORTH,  FORMERLY  MISS  MARY 
E.  WIGGINS 

student — John  Cameron.  See  Indiana  Medical  Journal, 
July,  1905,  for  a  full  history  of  the  case  by  Dr.  A. 
W.  Br  ay  ton. 

"Report  on  the  Diseases  of  Indiana  for  the  Year 
1872;  With  a  Brief  Outline  of  the  Medical  Topography 
and  Climatology  of  Different  Localities."  (Reports 
from  42  counties.)  Dr.  George  Sutton,  Chairman, 
Transactions,   1873,  p.   61. 

"History  of  the  Medical  Institutions  of  Indian- 
apolis." Editorial  Indiana  Journal  of  Medicine,  vol. 
iv,  pp.  313,  415,  November,  1873. 


366         MEDICAL    HISTORY    OF    INDIANA. 

"Early  State  Medical  Society — Fifth  District  Med- 
ical Society."  Dr.  W.  B.  Fletcher,  Transactions,  1874, 
p.  26. 

"Cholera  as  Appearing  in  Indianapolis  During  the 
Summer  of  1873."  Dr.  Thad  M.  Stevens,  Indiana  Jour- 
nal of  Aledicine,  vol.  v,  p.  41.      (June,  1874.) 

"State  Boards  of  Health."  Dr.  Thad  M.  Stevens, 
Transactions,   1875,  p.  65. 

"Report  on  Medical  History  of  Indiana."  Dr.  Thad 
M.  Stevens,  Transactions,   1875,  p.  79. 

"Medical  and  Surgical  History  of  Elkhart  County." 
Dr.  M,  M.  Latta,  Transactions,   1875,  p.  82. 

"Medical  History  of  Grant  County."  Dr.  William 
Lomax,  Transactions,  1875,  p.  88. 

"A  Report  on  Trichinosis  as  Observed  in  Dearborn 
County,  in  1874."  Dr.  George  Sutton,  Transactions, 
1875,  p.  109. 

First  case  of  recognized  "Podelcoma"  (Madura 
Foot),  occurring  in  the  United  States.  Reported,  by 
Dr.  G.  W.  H.  Kemper,  American  Practitioner,  vol.  xiv, 
p.    129    (September,    1876). 

"Diseases  Prevalent  in  the  Early  Settlement  of 
Kokomo."  Dr.  Corydon  Richmond,  Transactions, 
1879,  p.   19. 

"Statistics  of  Placenta  Prsevia."  This  report  tabu- 
lates 240  cases,  and  is  valuable  for  reference.  Dr. 
Enoch  W.  King,  Transactions,  1879,  pp.  43-92,  and 
1881,  pp.  168-226. 

"Affections  of  the  Gail-Bladder  Tending  'to  Result 
in  Cutaneous  Biliary  Fistula."  Shows  how  nature 
cures  some  cases  by  an  opening  through  the  abdominal 
walls.  The  publication  of  this  article  first  brought 
the  case  of  Dr.  Bobbs  into  prominence.  Dr.  G.  W.  H. 
Kemper,  Transactions,  1879,  p.  120.  In  that  paper, 
written  one-third  of  a  century  ago,  and  while  the  advis- 
ability of  such  an  operation  was  in  doubt.  Dr.  Kemper 
said : 

"It  is  a  pleasing  duty  to  pay  this  small  tribute  to 
the  memory  of  our  departed  fellow  and  brother.  While 
several  European  and  American  surgeons  are  discussing 
the  feasibility  and  priority  of  the  operation  of  cholecys- 


MEDICAL  HIHTONY  OF  ISlJlASA.  Mu 

totomy,  with  as  yet  no  complete  results,  but  only  the 
promise  of  success  for  the  future,  they  are  astonished 
to  learn  that  the  operation  was  successfully  performed 
by  a  surgeon  of  Indiana,  twelve  years  ago.  And  so, 
when  the  operation  of  eholecystotomy  shall  have  been 
placed  on  a  firm  and  scientific  basis,  and  recognized 
and  acknowledged  by  our  profession — as  it  assuredly 
will — and  its  literature  fully  considered,  the  lustre  of 
no  name  on  its  roll  shall  exceed  that  of  Dr.  Bobbs." 
Transactions,  1879,  p.  136. 

"A  Review  of  the  Epidemics  that  Have  Occurred  in 
Southeastern  Indiana  During  the  Last  Fifty  Years, 
and  the  Observations  on  Change  of  Type  in  Our 
Endemic  Malarial  Diseases."  Dr.  George  Sutton, 
Transactions,    1885,   p.    104. 

"Report  of  the  Literary  Proceedings  of  the  Banquet 
Given  by  the  Marion  County  Medical  Society  to  the 
Indiana  State  Medical  Society  at  the  Xew  Denison 
Hotel,  on  the  Evening  of  June  5,  1888."  At  this  meet- 
ing, James  Whitcomb  Riley  first  read  his  poem,  "Doc 
Sifers."     Transactions,  1888,  p.  160. 

"President's  Address — Medical  Retrospect  of  Fifty 
Years."     Dr.  W.  H.  Wishard,  Transactions,  1889,  p.  5. 

"One  Thousand  Cases  of  Labor  and  Their  Lessons." 
Dr.  G.  W.  H.  Kemper,  Medical  Neics,  vol.  59,  p.  285 
(Sept.  12,  1891). 

"Memoirs  of  the  Professional  Lives  of  Drs.  John 
S.  Bobbs,  Charles  Parry,  Talbott  Bullard,  and  David 
Funkhouser."  Dr.  P.  H.  Jameson,  Tramactions,  1894, 
p.  212a;  also  Indiana  Medical  Journal,  vol.  xii,  p.  426 
(June,  1894). 

"History  of  the  Small-pox  Epidemic  in  Muncie, 
Indiana,  in  1893."  Dr.  Hugh  A.  Cowing,  Twelfth 
Annual  Report  State  Board  of  Health  of  Indiana, 
1893,  p.   103. 

"The  Use  of  Antitoxin  in  the  Treatment  of  Diph- 
theria and  Membranous  Croup  with  a  Collective  Report 
of  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-Two  Cases."  Dr.  E.  L. 
Larkins,   Transactions,   1896,  p.   197. 

"An  Epidemic  of  Diphtheria  in  the  City  of  Colum- 
bus, Indiana.     Personal  Observations  in  One  Hundred 


368  MEDICAL  HISTORY  OF  INDIANA. 

and  Ninety  Cases."  Dr.  George  T.  MacCoy,  Trans- 
actions, 1897,  p.  54;  also  Transactions,  1898,  p.  350. 

"Summary  of  a  Report  of  One  Hundred  Cases  of 
Typhoid."     Dr.  I.  N.  Trent,  Transactions,  1898,  p.  72. 

"War  Number"  of  the  Indiana  Medical  Journal,  vol. 
xvi  (September,  1898).  Especially  valuable  to  those 
seeking  knowledge  of  the  several  Indiana  Regiments 
in  the   Spanish-American   War. 

"Essays  on  Bacteriology  and  Its  Relation  to  the 
Progress  of  Medicine."  Dr.  Theodore  Potter,  Medical 
and  Surgical  Monitor,  1898. 

"Mineral  Waters  of  West  Baden,  Indiana,  as  a 
Therapeutic  Agent."  Dr.  W.  D.  Pennington,  Medical 
and  Surgical  Monitor,  vol.  i,  p.  185    (October,   1898). 

"Camp  Morton  Hospital  in  the  Civil  War.  Report 
by  Drs.  John  M.  Kitchen  and  P.  H.  Jameson  to  Gov. 
Morton,  Jan.  6,  1863,"  Indiana  Medical  Journal,  vol. 
xvii,   p.   270    (January,   1899). 

"Indiana  in  Medicine,"  Dr.  Alembert  W.  Brayton. 
A  toast  delivered  at  the  Annual  Banquet  of  the  Allen 
County  Medical  Society  at  Fort  Wayne,  Dec.  26,  1899. 
Fort  Wayne  Medical  Journal,  Magazine  Medical  Jour- 
nal,  February,    1900,  p.   43. 

"Organization  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Society 
and  Its  Influence  Upon  the  Profession."  Dr.  W.  H. 
Wishard,  Transactions,  1899,  p.  20. 

"Report  of  Committee  on  State  Medicine  and 
Hygiene."  Drs.  J.  N.  Hurty,  L.  P.  Drayer,  and  N.  P. 
Cox,   Transactions,  1899,  p.   126. 

"Clinical  Features  of  Malaria  as  Seen  at  Camp 
Mount  Hospital."  Dr.  W.  T.  S.  Dodds,  Transactions, 
1899,  p.  197. 

"Small-pox  in  Anderson — A  Study  of  the  Present 
Epidemic."  Dr.  Charles  Trueblood,  Transactions,  1900, 
p.  120. 

"Aneurysm  of  the  Cervical  Portion  of_  the  Vertebral 
Artery;  Operation;  Recovery."  Twenty  cases  only 
are  on  record,  with  six  recoveries.  This  adds  one 
more  to  number  and  recoveries — six  of  the  successful 
cases  were  performed  by  American  surgeons.  Dr.  I. 
N.  Trent,  Transactions,   1901,  p.   118. 


MEDICAL  HlfiTORY  OF  IX DIANA.  3G9 

"A  Consideration  of  the  Present  Laws  for  the  Com- 
mitment of  the  Insane  in  Indiana."  Dr.  W.  B.  Fletcher, 
Transactions,   1901,  p.  426. 

"An  Index  of  the  Transactions  of  the  Indiana  State 
Medical  Society  from  1849  to  1900  Inclusive."  Dr. 
G.  W.  H.  Kemper,  Transactions,  1901,  p.  505. 

"The  First  Cholecystotomy — Sketch  of  John  S. 
Bobbs."  Dr.  M.  B.  Tinker,  Johns  Hopkins  Hospital 
Bulletin,  August,  1901.  Also,  Indiana  Medical  Jour- 
nal, vol.  XX,  p.  193.    (November,  1902.) 

"Modern  War  Wounds."  Dr.  Frank  W.  Foxworthy, 
Transactions,  1902,  p.  302. 

"The  Mineral  Waters  of  Indiana,  with  Indications 
for  Their  Application."  Dr.  Robert  Hessler,  Trans- 
actions,   1902,  p.   365. 

"The  Mineral  Waters  of  Indiana."  Dr.  George 
Kahlo,    Transactions,    1903,   p.    237. 

"Institutional  Practice."  Dr.  Harry  Sharp,  Trans- 
actions, 1905,  p.  67. 

"The  Mineral  Waters  of  Orange  County."  Dr.  John 
L.  Howard,   Transactions,   1905,  p.  413. 

"Blastomycosis  and  its  Congeners — Report  of  Eight 
Cases  Observed  in  Indiana."  Dr.  A.  W.  Brayton, 
Transactions,   1907,  p.  35. 

"The  Progress  of  Surgery  in  the  United  States." 
Dr.  John  H.  Oliver,  Indiana  Medical  Journal,  vol.  xxv, 
p.  383    (April,  1907). 

"A  Report  of  One  Thousand  Obstetrical  Cases  With- 
out a  Maternal  Death."  Dr.  Samuel  Kennedy,  Shelby- 
ville.  The  Journal  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical 
Association,  vol.  iii.  p.  200. 

"Historical  Sketch  of  Medicine  and  Medical  Men  in 
the  Early  Days  of  Johnson  County,  Indiana."  Dr.  R. 
W.  Terhune,  of  Whiteland.  Pamphlet.  Indiana  State 
Library,    Indianapolis. 

Dunn's  "History  of  Greater  Indianapolis,"  Chapter 
41,  and  Sulgrove's  "History  of  Indianapolis  and 
Marion  County,"  Chapter  12,  will  give  considerable 
information  concerning  the  physicians  of  Marion 
County. 


370  MEDICAL  HISTORY  OF  INDIANA. 

First  injection  of  "606"  in  Indiana  given  by  Drs. 
Wynn,  Brayton,  Graham,  Charlton,  Erdman  and  Free- 
land,  at  Indianapolis  City  Hospital,  November  16, 
1910.  Patient  J'oung  woman,  five  months  advanced  in 
pregnancy. 

"A  Plea  for  the  Cesarean  Operation,  Based  on  a 
Report  of  Fifty-Three  Cases  Performed  in  Indiana." 
Paper  read  by  Dr.  G.  W.  H.  Kemper,  before  the 
Indiana  State  Medical  Association,  1910.  First 
recorded  operation  by  Dr.  J.  W.  Conway,  January  29, 
1863.  Dr.  Moses  Baker  was  the  first  operator  to  save 
both  mother  and  child,  Nov.  3,  1880.  Dr.  W.  H.  Myers 
was  the  first  to  do  the  Porro  operation.  Dr.  Joseph 
Eastman  first  operated  in  an  extra-uterine  pregnancy 
and  saved  mother  and  child,  July  10,  1888.  The 
Journal  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Association, 
vol.  iv,  p.  162.  The  following  is  an  analysis  of  the 
fifty-three  cases: 

Cases 

Mother  and  child  saved 27 

Mother  alone  saved 11 

Total   number  of   mothers   saved 38 

Mother  and  child  lost 7 

Mother   alone  lost 8 

Total  number  of  mothers  lost 15 

Child   saved   with    mother 27 

Child  alone  saved 8 

Total  number  of  children  saved 35 

Child   lost  with   mother 7 

Child  alone  lost    11 

Total   number    of    children   lost 18 

Total  number  of  mothers  and  children  saved 73 

Total  number  of  mothers  and  children  lost 33 

"Medical  History  of  Delaware  County."  Names  of 
436  physicians.  History  of  Delaware  County,  Indiana. 
Kemper.     Chapter  xxii,  vol.  i,  p.  288. 

"Biography  of  Eminent  American  Physicians  and 
Surgeons."  Illustrated.  R.  French  Stone,  M.D., 
Indianapolis,  1894.  This  contains  biographies  of  a 
large  number  of  Indiana  Physicians. 

The  State  Transactions,  1849  to  1907  inclusive,  con- 
tain one  thousand  one  hundred  and  thirty-eight  (1138) 
articles. 


MEDICAL  HISTORY  OF  IX DIANA.  371 

"Malaria  in  Indiana."  Dr.  Ada  E.  Schweitzer.  This 
article  is  historical  and  valuable  for  reference.  The 
Journal  of  the  Indiana  State  Medical  Association,  vol. 
iv,  p.  70    (February,  1911). 

A  comjilete  file  of  the  Transactions  of  the  Indiana 
State  Medical  Society,  1849  to  1907,  may  be  found  in 
tlie  IndianajDolis   city   library. 


CORRECTIONS: 


Page     373.       "State     Medical     Convention    of     1849." 
142,    instead   of   "182". 

Page   374,     "Brayton,   Alembert   W."  read   xxi,  instead 

of     "XX". 

Page    374.      "Hibberd,    James    F.,"    read    xiii,    instead 
of    "xvii." 

Page  374.     "Athon,  James  S.,"  instead  of  "Samuel  S." 

Page  375.     "Beatty,  J.  L.,"  304  instead  of  "214". 

Page   387.      "Palmiter,    Clebron,"   add    323   after   98. 

Page    387.      "Pennington    Joel,"    change    first    figures 
"53"  to  33. 

Page   393.     "Witt,   William   B.,"   in   blank,   insert   201. 


INDEX 


SUBJECTS 

PAGE 

Board  of  health,  history  of 172 

Bobbs  free  dispensary 71 

County  History  : 

Allen 24 

Bartholomew .  .  .  .    100 

Clay    '.'.'.'.'.'.'..'.    124 

Delaware    89 

Fayette 113 

Fountain    I33 

Franklin 126 

Gibson 225 

Grant    \    II9 

Hancock .  .  .      95 

Jackson    IZS,  227 

Kosciusko    ,'   130 

Madison .  .  .    207 

Noble 97 

Ripley .  .  .    129 

Rush    '  .  '  '      75 

Steuben 136 

White    ;  ;    131 

Eastern  Indiana,  early  history  of 33 

Epidemics  in   Indiana 160 

Historical  notes  and  references 361 

Indianapolis  history  : 

City  hospital    71 

Early  medical  notes 50,   73 

Early  medical  men 31 

Legal   enactments    165 

Madison  (city)  reminiscences  of !      42 

Medical  colleges  : 

Central    g9 

Laporte 52 

Northwestern  Territory,  medicine  in 18 

Physicians,  deceased,  alphabetical  list  of 230 

State  medical  convention  of  1849 ".    182 

Corrected  list  of  members  of 182 

State  Medical  Society  and  Association  : 

Changes  in    I74 

Formation  and  growth  of 142 

List  of  members  from  1849  to  1860 151 

List  of  presidents    176 

List  of  vice-presidents 178 

Sessions,  place  of  meeting  and  date *  .'   173 

Terre  Haute,  early  medical  history  of '.      56 

Vincennes,  early  medical  history  of 4,   63 

War  History  : 

Surgeons  in  Mexican  War 186 

Surgeons  in  Civil  War    187 

Surgeons  in   Spanish-American  War .    204 

Hospital  Stewards  in  Spanish-American  War 205 


374 


INDEX. 


FOREWORD     AND 

PAGE 

Beck,  Joseph  R xiii 

Bobbs,  John  S.  .vii,  xviii,  xix 

Brayton,  Alembert  W 

xi,  xviii,  XX 

Burnsworth,  Mrs.  Z xviii 

Field,  Nathaniel vii 

Hibberd,  James  F. .  ,  vii,  xvii 

Kemper,  G.  W.  H 

ix,  xi,  xii,  xiii,  xiv,  xv,  xvi, 
xvii,  xviii,  xix,  xx,  xxi 


INTRODUCTION 

PAGE 

Kimberlin,  Albert  C xviii 

Mears,  George  W vii 

Moodey,  John  W xv 

Parvin,  Theophilus vii 

Pfaflf,  Orange  G xviii 

Schell,  Walker xviii 

Simpson,  Sir  Alex.  R..  .  .xviii 

Smith,  Hubbard  M xiii 

Tinker,  Martin  B xix 

Wishard,  William  H vii 


NAMES 

(Later  information  has  enabled  me  in  many  instances  to 
correct  errors  in  names,  also  to  supply  the  first,  or  Christian 
name  in  some  instances  when  omitted  in  the  text.  Where 
differences  are  observed  between  the  text  and  the  index,  the 
data  of  the  latter  are  to  be  preferred.) 


PAGE 

Abbott,,  Charles  H 188 

Abell,  L.  F 98 

Aborn,  Orin    188,  238 

Adair,   T.   E 98 

Adams,  David 188 

Adams,   James    M 233 

Adams,   James  Mc 233 

Adams,  James   R.  ...188,  233 

Adams,  Marcellus  M.188,  234 

Adkins,   Jehu    135 

Adylotte,   William   R. .  .  .  234 

Aichele,   Emil    188 

Aikman,  Edgar  A 234 

Albertson,   Edmund    ....  1.51 

Alexander,  John  H 188 

Alexander,  Stephen  J...  234 

Alexander,   Wilbur    234 

Alison,    (Vincennes)  ....  7 

Allen,  J.  Adams   54,   99 

Allen,  Joseph.  .146,    151.  182 

Allen,  Joseph   S 188 

Allen,  Seth    2.34 

Allen,  William  S 188 

Amick,^^  Christopher  C.  .  234 

Anderson,   (Monticello) . .  131 

Anderson,  .Tames   129 

Anderson,  Joseph  V 188 

Anderson,  Oliver  F 234 

Anderson,  William 129 

Andrew,  .Jacob  P 52 

Andrew,  William  P 234 

Andrews,  Daniel   H 234 

Andrews.  William  J 93 

Angell.   Charles    151 

Anthony,  Emanuel    234 

Anthony,  Samuel  P 234 


PAGE 

Applegate,  Charles  H.  .  .    188 

Archer,   Samuel  M 188 

Ardery,  Joseph  C 

147,  151,   182,  234 

Ardery,  Oscar   212 

Armington,   John  L 

147,   151,   182 

Armington,   William    .  .  .    234 
Armitage,   David   R..92,   234 

Armstrong,   ,J.   B 22 

Armstrong,  James  B.  .  .  .    188 
Armstrong,  Lewis   P....    234 

Armstrong,  Wesley    235 

Armstrong,  William    G  .  .    235 

Arnold,  John    117,   235 

Arnold,  Martin  B 188 

Arthur,  Christopher  C .  . 

188,   235 

Arwine,   John   S 235 

Aspinwall,  (Terre  Haute)      62 
Athon,   Samuel   S 

146,     151,     182,     186,   187, 

235 

Atkins,   Joseph    236^ 

Austin,    (Hecla) 54 

Austin,  Charles   B 236 

Austin,  Stephen  S 236 

Austin,  Thomas   D 188 

Austin,  Thomas    K..151,   179 
Averdick,  Henry  G..188,  236 

Avery,  Increase  J 188 

Avery,  John  P 188,   365 

Ayres,  Henrv  P 

24,  151,  176,  180,   236 

Ayres,   Stephen  D.  ..122,   236 


INDEX. 


375 


PAGE 

Babbit,  Edwai-d  D 188 

Bacon,  E.  A 117 

Bain,  W.  C.  A..  139,  140,  228 

Bail-,  W.  B 210,  212 

Baker,  A.   H 69 

Baker,   Braxton    188 

Baker,  Joseph   H 236 

Baker,  Moses 54,  236,  370 

Baker,  Philip   S 236 

Baker,  Thomas  H.  B. .  .  .  237 

Balingall,  George  H.209,  237 

Ball,  Edward  V 56,  58 

Ball,  William   H 131 

Ballard,  Chester  G 

146,   151,   182,  237 

Ballard,  Micajah    188 

Ballard,  Nathan    H 237 

Ballard,  S.    H 237 

Ballenger,  L.  P 212 

Ballou,  A.  B 237 

Banks,  (Ft  Wayne) 27 

Banks,   Ephraim  N 188 

Barbour,  Samuel 107 

Barcus,  Paul  J 204 

Bare,  Addison  W. .  .  .188,  202 

Bare,  John  E 189 

Barker,  Andrew  J 237 

Barker,  William   L 189 

Barnes,  Charles    116 

Barnes,  William  C 237 

Barnett,  Charles   E 204 

Barnett,  Walter   W 204 

Barrett,  James    210 

Barrett,  John    210 

Barritt,   J.  J 151 

Barry,  (Madison  Co.)  .  ,  .  210 

Barry,  G.  G 19 

Bartholomew,  Bradley.  . 

152,  237 

Barton,  Gaylord  G.  .  .19,  237 

Barton.  Philip  H 204 

Barton,  Philip   

19,  20,  63,  64.  65 

Bassett,  John  Q 189 

Bates,  Aaron  J 237 

Bates.  Philip    48 

Batman,  (Jackson  Co.)..  227 

Batman,  William    F 180 

Batty.    B.   J 19 

Baty.  John 8 

Bauer.   Modestus    237 

Baxter.   Joseph   A 105 

Bayse,  Thomas  S 189 

Beachley,  Nathaniel  J..  189 
Beard,  Ferdinand  W. .  .  . 

22,   180,  202,  237 

Beasley.  George  F.  .177,  204 

Beatty.   .J.   L 214 

Beck,  Elias   W.   H 

152,   189,  238 

Beck,  G.    G 152 

Beck,  J.  R 232 


PAGE 

Beck,  John    212 

Beck,  John  C iry* 

Beck,  Joseph    R 238 

Beck,  Thomas   S 212 

Beck,  William  H 189 

Becker,  Rannenis 7 

Beckes,  Lyman  M 239 

Beck  with,  Lod  W 189 

Beebe,  James    189 

Beecher,  Lewis   26 

Beeks,  Green  C 189 

Beer,   Henry   M 239 

Beeson,    William   H 22 

Beever,  John  C 22 

Bell,    (Robroy) 135 

Bell,   (ShelbyVille) 43 

Bell,   Guido    288 

Bell.  Nathaniel  G 189 

Bell,  William  H 177 

Belles,  J.  T 152 

Bence,  Robert  F 189 

Benezet,  (Allen  Co.)  ...  .  24 

Bennett,  Basil   B 189 

Bennett,  J.    W 152 

Benson,  Julius  L 189 

Berry.   George    126,  239 

Berryman.  James  A.  189.  239 

Berteling.  John  B...177,  180 

Bever.  John  C 239 

Beverly,   John  E 239 

Bigelow,  James  K 

180,  189,  239 

Bigney,  Peter  M 189 

Black,  Norman  W.  .  .92,  239 

Blackstone.  John   K.  .  .  .  189 

Blackwell,  John  A 189 

Blair,  Franklin 240 

Blair.  William  W...189,  225 

Bland,  (Jackson  Co.)  .  .  ,  140 

Blaser,  Felix  F.  ......  .  189 

Blount.  Cyrus    N 240 

Blount,  Rufus  F 189 

Blunt,  Marcus  S..  .  .152,  240 

Boaz.  Jacob 140 

Bobbs.  John  S 

69.  70.   71,  72,  73,   96,  97, 

144.     145,    146,    152.  176, 

182,    203,    240.     310,  364, 
365.   366,   367,  369 

Bodman,   Elam    189 

Bogart.  Henry  J 189 

Boggs,  L.  B 1,30 

Bogle.   Christopher  F .  .  .  1 89 

Bond.  Charles   S 177,  180 

Bond.  Richard   C 189,  242 

Bonnels.  L.  J 92 

Boor,  Walter   A 242 

Boor.  William  F 189.  242 

Bordwell,  Lewis   208 

Bosworth,  Richard   189 

Bounell,   Mathew  H.... 
189.   202,  242 


376 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Bowen,  Jesse    134 

Bowers,   Andrew   J 242 

Bowlby,   Joseph    242 

Bowman,  Charles    

152,   179,  361 

Bowman,  D 130 

Boyd,  John  M..146,  152,  182 

Boyd,  Samuel  S 

,      177,   189,  244 

Boynton,  A.   G 152 

Boynton,  C.  L 152 

Boynton,  Charles  S 189 

Boyse,   Thomas  F 189 

Bracken,  William   ..227,  244 

Brackett,   Charles    189 

Bradburn,  John    113 

Bradbury,   Allison  B. .  .  .  244 

Braden,   William    85 

Brady,  C.  C 246 

Brand.  (Rockford)   139 

Brandon,    Joseph    Fran- 
cis     212,  246 

Brandt,  (Rockford)    ....  227 

Bray,  Ebenezer    152 

Bray,  Madison  J 

152,     176,     189,     246,  362 
Brayton,  Alembert  W. .  . 

2,    3,    177,    365,    368,  369, 

370 

Brazelton,   John   B 189 

Brenton,  William  H 189 

Bridwell,  Lafayette 246 

Briley,  Absalom 124 

Brittain,    Stephen   H 246 

Brooks,  (Terre  Haute)  .  .  56 

Brooks,  Mordecai 189 

Brooks,  William    H 246 

Brothers,  Guy  M 247 

Brower,  Jeremiah  H. .  .  . 

147,    152,    176,    182,  246, 

361,  362 

Brown,  (Bethel)    96 

Brown,  Clay.  .    152,   189,  246 

Brown,  Daniel  E 53 

Brown,  Jacob  R 189 

Brown,  Jesse    R 189 

Brown,  Joseph    . 19 

Brown,  Ryland  T 

41,     54,    70,     84,    116,  152 

Brown,  S.    Clay 189 

Brown,  Samuel   M.  ..152,  247 

Brown,  Wilkins  B 189 

Browne,  J 8 

Browne,  John   T 190 

Bruce,  George  W 190 

Brucker,  Ma2:nus    190 

Brunt,  Samuel    213 

Brunt,  Samuel  F 247 

Brusie,  Luther 190 

Brvan.  George   W 190 

Bi-yan,  T.   N 247 

Bryant,  (Fountain  Co.).  3  37 


PAGE 

Bryson,  Frank  T 190 

Buchman,  Henry   120 

Buck,  O 152 

Buck,  Robert  H .  .  . 

152,   190,   202 

B  u  c  k  -  o  n-ga-helas,  (In- 
dian)    . 28 

Buehler,  Eugene 204 

Bullard,  Talbott    

33,  73,  96,  145,  146  152, 
164,  176,  178,  182,  247, 
367 

Bullard  W.R 152 

Bulson,  Albert  E.,  Jr.  .  .    175 

Bunnel,   W.    W 39 

Bunton,  Edwin  A 247 

Burk,  George  L 247 

Burke,  George  W 248 

Burket,  Calvin  W 180 

Burlingame,  E.  G 248 

Burlington,  James  C. .  .  .    137 

Burns,    Jesse 152 

Burnsworth,  Mrs.  Z.  .  .  .    365 

Burr,  Chancey    S 213 

Burr,  Joseph   S 113,  115 

Burt,  Dickinson 

.89,  93,   208,   209 

Burt,  James   Clark. .....    248 

Burton,  George  W 22,   248 

Burton,  William  A 190 

Bush,  J.  E 49,   128 

Bush.  O.    152 

Bushnell,  Samuel  B....    190 

Butler,  A.  B 152 

Butterfleld,  S.  H 152 

B  u  1 1  e  r  w  orth,  (Misha- 

waka)    54 

Butterworth,  William  W.    190 

Buzett,  Edward  F 190 

Eyers,  Alexander  R.190,  248 

Byers,  William  J 

146,  152,  182 

Byf ord,  William  H 

.  .152,   178,    248,    361,   362 
Byrn,  Spencer    190 

Cadwallader,  Joseph  . .  .    120 

Cady,  William  F 249 

Cain,  Cornelius    128 

Calderwood,  James  C...    190 

Calloway,  Beniah  T 213 

Cameron,    John    365 

Campbell,  John  C.  L 190 

Campfield,  John  A 190 

Canady,  W.  H 249 

(^anby,  (Madison)    44 

Cannon.  George  H 249 

Carey,  Isaac 249 

Carley,   Rush    190 

Carlstadt,  F.  A 152 

Carmean,  (Madison  Co.).   209 
Carr,  George  W.98,  190,  249 


IXDEX. 


377 


PAGE 

CaiT,  Thomas    23  0 

Carson,  William   F 249 

Carter,  D.  M 213 

Carter,  F.   M 152 

Cartwright,  Samuel    A.  .  16 

Carver,  L.  E 132 

Casey,  (Gibson   Co.)  ...  .  226 

Casselberry,    Isaac 

152,     177,     179,    190,  249, 
•     250 

Casterline,  Amos  B 190 

Casterline,  Ziba 190 

Catlin,  H.  W 152 

Chamberlain,  James  M.  .  190 

Chamberlain,  James   N.  .  250 

Chamberlain,  N.  A 190 

Chamberlain,  Samuel  B. .  250 

Chambers,   John    250 

Champ,   George  W 190 

Chandler,  Joseph  A.  130,  190 
Channing,  William   S .  .  . 

213,  250 

Chapman,  A.    .  . . ; 152 

Chapman,  Amos  H..117,  118 
Chapman,  Hon.    John    B. 

130 

Charles,  Etta    251 

Charles,  Henrv    250 

Charlton,  Fred   R.  .  .205,  870 

Charlton,  Robert    190 

Charlton.  Samuel    H .  .  .  . 

.  .  .139,  177,  180,  190,  251 

Chenoweth,  John    T 251 

Chenoweth,  Nelson   T.  .  .  251 

Chenowith,  George  F. .  .  .  251 

Chestnut,  Thomas 152 

Chittenden,   George  F. .  .  190 

Chittick,  Charles 181 

Chitwood,  George    R .  .  .  . 

117,   118,   152,  251 

C'hitwood,   .Joshua    

.  .  .118,  129,  190,  202,  251 

Churchill,  John  M 251 

Chutes,  George  (Shoots) 

140,  228 

Clapp,  Asahel    

48,  49,  145,  146,  152,  176, 

178,  182,  341 
Clapp,  William  A. .....  . 

.  .  .146,  152,  182,  190,  252 

Clark,  (Madison  Co.)  .  .  .  210 

Clark,  Chester   137 

Clark,  Dougan    70,  252 

Clark.  Edmond    252 

Clark,  Hayman  W 116 

Clark,  J.   C 252 

Clark,  Lemon  W 252 

Clark,  Othniel  L 152,  179 

Clark.  William    62,  63 

Clark,  William  R.   S 252 

Cleaver,  John    128 

Clififord,  (Rush  Co.) 85 


PAGE 

Clippinger,  George  W.  .  .    190 

Clowes,  David  A 190 

Cochran,  James 252 

Coe,  Henry    152 

Coe,  Isaac 31,  43,   49,  252 

Coe,  Z.  B 152 

Cogley,  Thomas  J 

129,   152.   179,   253 

Cole,  Henry  C 253 

Cole,  William  C 

133,   190,  253 

Coleman,  Asa    190 

Coleman,  Horace ....  153,  190 
Colescott,  Thomas  W...    126 

Collett,   Joseph   T 190 

Collier,  A.  G 153 

Collings,   Isaac  S...153,  190 

Collins,   Erasmus  B 190 

Collins,  George  M.  .  .190,  253 
Collins,  William   A..  191,   253 

Collins,  William   F 153 

Collum,  William  F 

146,   153,  182,  254 

Colvert,  William 

133,   136,  254 

Combs,  Charles  N 332 

Comingor,  John  A 

70.    72,    73,    153,    191,   254, 

365 
Commons,   William    ....    204 

Compton,  John  W 254 

Comstock,  George  C .  .  .  .    107 

Confer,  James  M 191 

Conn,  Isaac  T 191 

Conn,  Richard  B 

129,   147,   153,  182 

Connett,  Mahlon  C 191 

Connor,  Leartus   99 

Constant,  John   H 202 

Conway,  J.  W 370 

Conyngton,  John   153 

Cook,  Daniel 213 

Cook,  George  J 177 

Cook,  John  H 208,  213 

Cook,  John    W 167 

Cook,  Robert   H 191 

Cook,  Thomas  E 215 

Cook,  Ward    

167.   168,  208,  215 

Cool,  Jonathan 32 

Cooper,  Joel   S 191 

Cooper,  William   

146,   153,  182,   254 

Cooper,  W.   B 216 

Corey,  Lavanner    255 

Corlew.  Rufus  M 255 

Cornelius.  W.  W 216 

Cornett.  William  T.  S. .  . 

42.  129.  145,  147,  153,  176, 

182.   255 

Coster.   William    129 

Corvell,  Samuel   228 


:78 


INDEX. 


PAGE 
,  256 
.    256 

182 
367 
135 
179 
191 
368 
191 
191 

92 
216 
211 
256 
191 
256 
134 
191 

39 
256 
227 
256 
362 


Courtney,   James   T 

Cowan,    John   A 

Cowgill,  Tarvin  W 

147,   149,   153, 

Cowing,   Hugh  A 

Cox,  (Fountain  Co.)  .... 

Cox,  Henry    

Cox.  Jesse  T 

Cox,  N.   P 

Craig,  Isaac  N 

Craig,  John   M 

Craig,  William    

Crampton,  Jesse  Pugh .  . 

Cranfield,  M.  L 

Crapo,  John  R 

Cravens,  James  W 

Cravens,  Samuel  C 

Crawford,  John   

Cresap,  William  S 

Crews,    (Centerville)  .38, 

Crippen,  E.  H 153, 

Crippen,  James    ....  139, 

Crist,  Daniel  O 

Crooks,  (Rockport)     .... 
Crookshank.     or     Cruik- 

shank.  Erasmus  D. .  .  . 

77,  128 

Crosbv,  The,  H 256 

Crosby.  Thomas  H 191 

Cross.'  Joseph  B 256 

Crouse,  D.    H 153 

Crouse,  Henry  M 191 

Crouse,  Jerome   H 256 

Crow     (Albion    T.?)   (Al- 
len   Co. ) 24 

Crowder,  Robert  H 191 

Crum,  P.  W 98 

Crunkleton.  Fred  J 257 

Culbertson,  David  P 191 

Culbertson,  Joseph  R .  .  .  191 
Culbertson,  Robert   H.  .  . 

191.  257 

Cullen,   John   C 191 

Cummings,  (Houston)  ..  3  40 
Cummings,  Hiram  A. .  .  .  257 
Cummins.  Benjamin  F..    257 

Cure,   Hiram   W 257 

Curl,  William    226 

Curran.  Robert   

146,     148,     153,     178.     182, 

257 

Currv,  John    191 

Curryer.  William  T 258 

Curtis,  (Allen  Co.) 24 

Curtis,  David  G 204 

Curtis,  George  L 258 

Cushman,  Arbaces    258 

Cushman,  Benjamin  ....  25 
Cushman.  Daniel  W....  258 
Cyrus,  W.  H.   (Cyms)... 

153.   191 


PAGE 

Dailey,  J 27 

Dailey,  James  J 258 

Dalgleish,  Henry  T 258 

Daly,  George  P 191 

Dancer,   John    98,  258 

Daniels,  (Jackson  Co.)..  140 
Daniels,  Ebenezer    .  .  .56,     57 

Daniels,   Edward    117 

Darnell,  Milton  B 191 

Darrach,  George  M..153,  258 
Daugherty,  Charles  A. .  .  177 
Daughters,  Andrew  P.  .  .  191 
Davenport,  Henderson  D., 

259 

259 

8 


Davenport,  Theodore  .  . . 
Davidson,  (Vincennes) . . 
Davidson,    Benjamin    F., 

153,  191 

Davidson,  Greenleaf  N.  .    259 

Davidson,  H.    19 

Davidson,  William    

147,    153,    178,    182,    191, 

361 
Davidson,  William  R..  .  . 

181,  359 

Davis,  (Madison  Co.)  .  .  .    209 

Davis.  Eugene    F 259 

Davis,  John    210 

Davis,  J.    B 153 

Davis,  John   B 127,   191 

Davis,  John  W...19,  60,  191 

Davis,  Joseph   140 

Davis,  Joseph    H 191 

Davis,  Nathan    S 99 

Davis,  Robert   P 191,  259 

Davis,  S 153 

Davis,  Samuel    191,   259 

Davis,  Solomon    191 

Davis,  Tiffin    105,   106 

Davis,  William    H 153 

Davis,  William    S 205 

Davisson,  Henry  C 191 

Day.   Samuel  D 153,   259 

Dayhuflf,   A.  F 259 

De  Bruler,  James  P 

19,   153.   259,   362 

De  Bruler,  James  P 260 

De  Bruler.  Oliver  E 261 

Decker.  Hiram 

7.  12.  15,  19,  20,  65 

Dehority,  J.  M 216 

D<}mi»ig,  Elizur  H 

53,    54,    55,    69,    153,    176, 

261 

Denny,  De  Witt  C 97,   98 

D(  nny,  J.N 98 

Depew,  Richard  J ..    261 

Dr  wey,  Annin  W 191 

DeVore,  Henry  V 262 

Dicken,   James  L 

153,   191,  262 

Dickey,  Andrew  S 181 


IXDEX. 


170 


PAGE 

Dill,  Nathaniel  C 262 

Dillon,   A.   C 158 

Dills,  Thomas  J 262 

Dinwiddle,  Daniel    19 

Dinwiddle,  W 18,  19 

Dixon,  William   H 191 

Doan,  N.  W 262 

Doane,  George  M 191 

Dodd,  James   191 

Dodds,  W.  T.  S 368 

Dodge,  Henry  € 191 

Dodson,  Jonas  H 192 

Dolph,  Cassius  M 262 

Dome,  David  C 192 

Donaldson,  Ebenezer  F. .  262 

Doneghy,  John  T 153 

Dooley,  Aldine  J 262 

Douglas,  G.  R 360 

Douglas,  Thomas  ..  .210,  216 
Douglass,  Hon.    Fredk. .  . 

208,  292 

Douglass,  Robert   . .  .  210,  216 

Dorsey,  (Centerville)     ..  38 

Dorsey,  N.    J 153 

Dowling,   Henry  M 

146,    153,    163,     178,  182. 

262 

Downey,  Charles  G 69 

Downey,  William   A 192 

Drayer,  Lewis    P 368 

Drayer,  Peter    262 

Drvden,   Thomas  F. .  153,  262 

Dudley,  (Dudleytown)     .  138 

Duffield,  James  T 192 

Duffy,   John    S 192 

Du  Kate.  John  B 262 

Du  Kate,  .John  S 22,  192 

Dunham,  David    209,  216 

Dunham,  Valentine.  .216,  262 

Dunlap,  John  M 263 

Dunlap,  Livingston    .... 

31.    32.   43,  49.    69.   71,  73, 

145,    146,    153,     176,  178, 

182,  263,  361 

Dunn,  John    G 186 

Dunn,  J 153 

Dunn,  Williamson  D.  .  .  .  192 

Dunn,  Williamson  P 192 

Dunnell,  D 153 

Dunning,  Lehman  H. .  .  .  263 

Durand,  Amos  M 192 

Dutton,  Daniel  B 192 

Duzan,  George  N 264 

Dwiggins,  Moses  F 264 

Farley,  E.  P 342 

Earp,   Samuel  E 2,  3,  267 

Easterling,   Amos 192 

Eastman,  Joseph 

.  .  . 201.   264,   266,  370 

Ebersole.   .Jacob    192 

Ebert.  AYilliam  H 216 


PACK 

Edgerlo,    George   W.,   Jr. 

153,  192 

Edwins,  Stanley  W 192 

Egbert,   George    207 

Eichelbei-ger.  William  C. 

267 

filbert,    Samuel   A 267 

Elder,  B.  F 153 

Elder,  p:iijah  S 

177,   267,  363 

Elder,  Samuel  F 153 

Eldridge,  Albert 

147,   153,  182 

Elliott,  A 19 

Elliott.  Cyrenus    154 

Elliott,  James   H 154 

Elliott,  James  S 192 

Elliott,  Thomas  B 154 

Elliott.  W.  M 154 

EllLs,  C.   R 1.53 

Ellis,  Charles   S 267 

Ellis,  E.  W.  H 153 

Ellis,  Hamilton  E.  .  .192,  267 

Ellis,  .John    153 

Ellis.  Joseph 153 

Elrod,  Moses  X 268 

Elston,  William  T 192 

English,  Calvin  H 205 

Eno.  Newton  G 192 

Erdman,   Bernard    370 

Erichson.  G 99 

Espey,  James  G 205 

Espey.  James  0 268 

Estabrook.  S.  H 97 

Evans.  David   S 192 

Evans,  John .54,  73,  268 

Everts.   C.  C 154 

Everts.  Orpheus .  54.  192,  268 

Everts,  S ..48,  49 

Everett.  (Union    Co.)  ...  84 

Ewing,  Frank   228 

Fairfield.  William  J....  216 

Fairhurst.  O'Connel    ....  22 

Fairhurst.  William    19 

Fanning.  Frederick  W..  .  268 

Fansler.  D.  N 98 

Farquhar.  Allen  H 268 

Farquhar,  Uriah   

145.     146,    154.    178,  182. 

268 

Farrell.   A 154 

Featherston.  John  R. .  .  .  269 
Fenley.   (Finley)    Isaac. 

.  .  .108,  147,  154.  ]82,  186 

Ferguson.  David    269 

Ferguson.  Frank    C 2 

Ferguson.  William   T. .  .  .  192 

Ferree,  Frank  M 269 

Ferree,  Shadrach  L 269 

Ferris.     (Lawrenceburg) 

44 


380 


IXDEX. 


PAGE 

Ferris,  Samuel    269 

Field,  David  L 254 

Field,  Nathaniel    

154,   176,  192,  269 

Fields,    (Tampico)    140 

Finch,   (Centerville)..38,  39 

Finley,  George  W 124 

Fishback,  Charles    

154,  179,   269,  270 

Fisher,  Elias    192 

Fisher,  H.  G 217 

Fisher,  Samnel 154 

Fisher,  Samuel 270 

Fitch,  Graham  N 270 

Fitzgerald,  David    A .  .  .  .  192 

Fitzgerald,  Jenkins    ....  192 

Flack,  William  C 192 

Fletcher  William   B .  .  .  . 

48,   70,    72,   271,   326,  366, 

369 
Florer,  Thomas  W 

145,    154,    178,    179,  182, 

192,  271,  272 

Ford,  James  ..  .154,  192,  272 

Ford,  James   H 177 

Ford,  John  H 192 

Ford,  John   Louis...  139,  228 

Ford,  Joseph   H 273 

Forkner,   Thomas   B....  217 

Forstmeyer,   Emil    192 

Fosdick,  Albert  C 192 

Fosdick,  William    186 

Foster,  C.   A 154 

Foster,  John    121,  122 

Foster,  William  C,   Sr.  . 

147,  182 

Foster,  Y/illiam  C,  Jr.. 

154,   192,  204 

Fonts,  William  D 192 

Fowler,  J 49 

Foxworthy,  Frank  W. .  . 

205,  369 

Frame,  William  B 

75,  82,  83,  84,  85 

France,  John   W 273 

France,  Samuel   192 

Francis,  James  K 

. 129,   147,  154,  182 

Franks,  W.   H 98 

Free,  Cyrenius 217 

Freeland.  John  L 370 

Freeland,  John  T 22 

Freeman,  Edward  D .  .  .  .  181 

Freeman,  Samuel  A 

154,  192 

Freeman,  William   ..192,  273 

French,  John    S 192 

French,  William    H 154 

Frink,   Charles   S 

99,  203,  273 

Fritts,  Thomas  J 192 

Fritz,  Perry  L 217 


PAGE 

Fry,  Thomas  W. ......  . 

146,    154,    179,    182,    192, 

273 
Fullerton,  Charles  ...49,  226 
Fullerton,  George  W.  .  .  .    193 
Fulenwider,  Samuel  ....    ]  37 
Funkhouser,   David    .... 

73,  146,  154,  182,  273,  367 
Fussell,  Batholomew  .  .  .  217 
Fussell,  Edwin   B.  .  .208,  217 

Gaddy,  Nelson  D 273 

Galbreath,  Thomas  S .  .  .  274 
Gale,   Temple  E 

41,  113,  115,   128 

Gall,  Alois  D 

73,  146,  154,  182,  193,  274 
Garber,  Jonathan  B....    3  81 

Garey,   Dumont    274 

Garrell,  C.  V 211 

Garretson,  J.  M 217 

Garrett,   Anthony    193 

Garrison,  Herod    D 193 

Garrison,  James  L.  F.  .  .  193 
Garstang,  Reginald  W.  .    205 

Garver,  George  W 119 

Garver,  Henry  F .....  .    193 

Garver,  James  A 193 

Garver,  John  James....  274 
Gaston,  John  M 

73,  146,  154,  182    274 

Gatch,  James  D 

177,   180,   193,   274 

Gause,  Thomas   275 

Geis,  John  F 275 

Gentry,  Zachariah  B. .  .  .  193 
Gerrard,  Jerome  B..154,  193 
Gerrish,  James  W.  F. .  .  . 

193,   276 

Gerrish,  Millard  F 205 

Gibson,   F.  W 140,  228 

GifiEord,  Thomas    ....127,   276 

Gifford,  William   H 125 

Gilbert,  Henry   130 

Gilbert,  J.    L 97,     98 

Gilbert,  William   H 180 

Gilfillan,  John   125 

Gillespie,  (Ripley  Co.)  .  .      44 

Gillespie,  William   193 

Gillum,  James   193 

Gillum,  R.   T 118 

Gilmore,  Alexander  W .  .    193 

Girdner,  J.  G 154 

Glasgo,  Thomas  A 276 

Glick,  Elias  B 193 

Godwin,  George  W..209,  217 
Goldsberrv,  John  A.  193,   276 

Good.  Alonzo  H 276 

Goodell.  William    210 

Goodwin,  Grant    131 

Goodwin.  John  R...127,  193 
Gordon,  George  W 19S 


IXDEX. 


381 


Gordon,  Jonathan  W. .  .  . 

130,  147,   1.-54, 

Gorrell,  Josoph  R 

Goss,  James  M 193, 

Gould,  Vernon    

Graff,  George  B  .  .  .  .  154, 

Graham,  Alois  B 

Graham,  Andrew  E 

Graham,  J.  N.  .154,  361, 

Graham,  William   B 

Gramm,  William    

Grant,  George  H...  .177, 

Gravis,  Charles  M 

Gray,  Arthur  W 

Gray,  .John   M 193, 

Gray,  Samuel  C 130, 

Graydon,  li.  G 73, 

Grayston,  Fredk.  S.  C.  . 

Green,  Charles  H 

Green,  George  R.  .  .  .167, 

Green,  Hiram  S 

Green,  J.  H 

Green,  James  H 

Green,  James  H 

Green,  .James  W 

Green,  John  N 

Green,  Jonathan   N. .  154, 

Green,  Lot    

Green,  W.  P 

Greenwood,    (Robroy) . .  . 

Gregg,  Henry    

Gregg,  James   S 

177,   180,  193, 

Gregg,  Vincent  H 

118,  193, 

Grichfield,  A.  B 

Griffis,  Robert   

Griffith,  (Richmond)    .  .  . 

Griffith,  John  C 

Grimes,  Samuel    ....  154, 

Grinwell,  John  L 

Grove,    .Jasper   M 

Grover,  Henry  C 

Guffin,  John 

Guyer,   O.  K 

Guysinger,  John  S 

Hadley,  Edwin    .' 

Hadley,  Evan    

Hagen,     (Rockford) 

Haggerty,  Robert  J 

Haines,  Abram  B 

154,   193. 

Hale,  David  M 63, 

Hall,  Clarissa    .Johnson. . 
Hall,  Daniel  D 

117.     118,     154,     193, 

Hall,  Homer  J 

Hall,  Wesley  C 

Hallanan.  .Joseph   

Ham,    Levi   J 193, 

Hamen,    (Monticello)  .  .  . 


PAGE 

182 
193 
276 
193 
226 
370 
276 
362 
193 
154 
276 
276 
193 
277 
277 
154 
277 
277 
181 
193 
277 
139 
027 

277 
193 
179 
277 
154 
135 
277 


278 
130 
278 
37 
193 
178 
193 
193 
193 
193 
278 
217 

278 

278 
227 

278 

278 

64 

292 

202 
181 

278 
278 
278 
131 


PAGE 

Hamil,  Robert  C 

147,  154,  182 

Hamilton,   (Prairieton) . .  59 

Hamilton,  Asa  A 120 

Hamilton,  John    134 

Hamilton,  S.    M 119 

Hammond,  Francis  J...  279 

Hamon,   (Burkville)  ....  84 

Hard,  C 54 

Hard,  Nichols   53,  54 

Harding,  Myron  H.,  Sr. . 

147,    154,     162,    176,  179, 

182,  279.  362 
Harding,  Myron  H.,  Jr. . 

279 

Flardman,  Jacob 279 

Hargrove.   William   S...  279 

Harriman,  T^-onard    ....  211 
Ilarriman,  Simeon    B. .  .  . 

193,  211 

Harrington,  S.  H 154 

Harris,  Rice  C 279 

Harris,  William  B 22,  193 

Harris,  William  C 280 

Harrison,  James   S 

69.  73,  146,   154.    182,  361 

Harrison,  Robert  G 193 

Harrison,  Thomas   H. .  .  . 

194,  202 

Harrod,   Stanford  H 280 

Hartclay,   (Greensburg)  .  44 

Hartloff.  Richard 280 

Harvey,  Reuben    211 

Harvev.  Thomas    B 

70.  '72,    73,   154.    177.  180. 
280 

Harvey.  William   F. .  154,  281 

Hasty.  George   281 

Hatchitt.   James  G 155 

Hatfield.  (Jackson    Co.).  140 

Haughton.  A.   J 22 

Haughton.  Richard  E. .  .. 

155,     177,     179,     180,  281 

Havens.  Joseph  M 54 

Hawkins,  Eugene  . .  .  181,  205 

Hawkins,  Robert  W 205 

Hawkins.  W.    B 125 

Hawn.   Emanuel   R 194 

Hayden,  Anexamander  M.  180 

Hayes,  George   C 283 

Hayes,  Samuel  M 194 

Haymaker,  George  W.  .  .  282 

Haymond,  Rufus   127 

Haymond.  William  S..  .  . 

194,  282 

Havnes,    (Rising  Sun)  .  .  44 

Hays,  Franklin  W 282 

Hays,  George  C 137 

Hazard,  H.  W 118 

Heady,  William  S 283 

Heald,   J.   F 155 

Heath,  Frederic  C 178 


382 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Ueaton,  Johnson  F 194 

Heatwole,  Joseph  H.  .  .  .  283 
Heavenridge,    Allen.  155,  283 

Hedges,  Isaac  B 283 

Helm,  Jefferson   

,   84,  85,  116,  147,  155,  182, 

283 

Helm,  John   C 92,  283 

Helm,  John  H 177,   283 

Helmer,   Orlando  H 194 

Hendershot,  Claude  T.  . 

181,  338 

Henderson,  Harvey  D .  .  . 

155,  283 

Henderson,  James  T.  .  .  .    283 

Henderson,  John  F 194 

Hendricks,  William  ....  212 
Hendricks,  William  C.  .  .  194 
Henkle,   (Wabash) 

146.   155,   182 

Henley,  A.  W 123 

Henning,  Robert 283 

Henry,  (Chesterfield)     .  .    209 

Henry,  David  H 194 

Henry,  Robert    194 

Hensley,  John  H 283 

Henthorne,  Lewis  S .  .  .  .   284 

Herrmann,   John    284 

Hervey,  Frank  F 284 

Hervey.  James    W.  .  .  .  .  . 

95,  96,  155,  194,  284 

Hervey,  Thomas  P 194 

Hess.  Luther  W 284 

Hessler,    Robert 336,369 

Hiatt,  Christopher  C.  .  .  194 
Hibberd,  .James  F 

155,  176,  178,  232,  284 

Hickam,  Wilfred .  .    286 

Hickox,  H.  C 155 

Higbee,  Edward  S 194 

Higday,  Tompkins    

52.  53,  54,  55,   286 

Higgins,  Carter  B 286 

Highman,    Louis    286 

Higinbotham,  Samuel   .  .    194 

Hilburn,  Eber  W 286 

Hilburn,  Jabez  C 194 

Hildredth,  (Madison  Co.)    210 

Hill.  Reuben  M 135 

Hillis,  (.Jackson    Co.)  .  .  .    227 

Hillis,  D.   B ....  1.39,   155 

Hinkley,   Judah    127 

Hinman,  Homer  T 

109,   147,  155,   182 

Hitchcock,  (Covington)..  134 
Hitchcock.  John  W. .  .  56,  194 

Hitt,  John  Y 194 

Hitt,  AYillis  Washington. 
8,   11.   16,   19,  21,   22.  147, 
155.  178.  179,  182,  286 

Hoagland  .John  S 194 

Hobbs,  William   P 194 


PAGE 

Hobbs,  Wilson   

177,   180,   194,   287 

Hochstetter,   Jacob   P. .  .    194 

Hockett,  Zimri 217 

Hodges,  Fred   Jenner...    217 
Hodgkins,   Lewis   W.  .  .  .    194 

Hoel,   John   B 155. 

Hoffman,  Max  F.  A. .  .  .  .    194 
Holcomb,  John  B 

147,   155,   183 

Holland,  Hezekian   19 

Holmes,   Azel    56,     58 

Holtzmann,   Samuel  E .  .    194 
Homburg,  Conradin    ....    287 

Hoover,   (Muncie) 92 

Hopkins,  Joseph   66 

Hornbrook,  William  P.  . 

194,  288 

Home,  John 210,  218 

Home,   Samuel  S...122,  288 

Horner,   Jacob   S 194 

Hotchkiss,  (Terre  Haute) .    62 
Houghland,   William  T..    194 

Houser,  Jacob  H 194 

Howard,  C.    N 130 

Howard,  Elijah    J 288 

Howard,  John  L .   369 

Howard,  Noble   P 

155,   180,   194,   288 

Howes,     (Madison) 44 

Howland,  J.  M 

75,  80,  81,  85,     86 

Hudleson,   Lucius  R .  .  .  .    288 
Huggins,  George  M 

146,   155,   183 

Hughes,  S.  W 117,   119 

Hughs,  John    288 

Humphreys,  Louis    

54,     155,     177,     179,     194, 

288 
Hunt,  Andrew    M 

73,   146,   155,  183,   194 

Hunt,  Franklin   W 

52,  146,  183 

Hunt,  John     

.  .  .145,  155,  183,  210,  218 

Hunt,  John  W 218 

Hunt,  Tilghman 288 

Hunt,  WMlliam    A 218 

Hunter,  James  B 194 

Hurd,  Anson 155,   194 

Hurt,  William  J 180 

Hurty,  .John  N 181,   368 

Huston,    A.    S 219 

Hutchinson,  David 

145,    155,    164,    176,    179, 

183,  194,  288,  364 

Inlow,  James  B 219 

Inlow,  John    J 290 

Insley,  William  Q 290 

Ireland,  J.  M 155 


IMJEX. 


383 


PAGE 

Ireland,  William  H 194 

Irish,  (Covington)     1.34 

Irish,  (Terre  Haute) 56 

Irwin,  George   E 194 

Irwin,  John  S 155 

Irwin,  Luther   M 290 

Isler,   J 155 

lutzi,  Joseph 290 

Jackman,   Frank    291 

Jackson,  John    130 

Jackson,  Solomon   139 

James,    (Rising   Sun)  ...      44 
Jameson,  Patrick  H .  .  .  . 
33,  73,  146.  148,  155,  183, 
291,  367,  368 

Jaquess,  George  D 1 94 

Jay,  James  C 195 

Jeancon,   John  Allard. .  .    195 

Jenks,  Edward    99 

Jennings,   D 155 

Jessup,  D.  H 155 

Jessup,  Robert   B 

9,  19,  20,  21,  22,  180,  195, 
291 

Jessup,  R.    R 155 

Jewett,  Luther    ....  155,  291 

Jobes,  George  0 291 

John,  Isaac  G 129 

John,  Jr.,   (Brookville)..    128 
Johnson,   (Brookville)...    128 

Johnson,  Charles   S 291 

Johnson,  E.    K 155 

Johnson,  H.  "V.  V. .  .  . 

73,   146,   155,   183 

Johnson,  Isaac  C 195 

Johnson,  Jarvis  J.  .  .195,   202 

Johnson,  John  B 195 

Johnson,  Joseph 155 

Johnson,  Lemuel  R 292 

Johnson,  Nathan    ..... 

145,    155,    176,    178,    179, 
183,  292 
Johnson,  P.  Roosevelt  .  .    155 

Johnson,  Samuel   F 195 

Johnson,  Thomas  J 195 

Johnson,  Thomas  W.  .  .  .   292 
Johnson,  William  W.  .  .  .    195 

Johnson,  Z.    C 130 

Jones,  Caleb   V 

.  -.133,  136,  186,  195,  292 

Jones,  David  M I55 

Jones,  G.    S 133 

Jones,  George  W 195 

Jones,  Harry    195 

Jones,  Hiram  G 293 

Jones,  Homer   1 205 

Jones,  James  Y 195 

Jones,  J.  M 219 

Jones,  John  H 195 

Jones,  John  S 134 

Jones,  Joseph  195 


PAGE 

Jones,  Joseph  134 

Jones,  "Long"  135 

Jones,  P.  G 26,  187 

Jones,  Peter  63 

Jones,  Robert  E 293 

Jones,  T.    B 293 

Jones,  Thomas   N...195,  219 

Jones,  William   B 195 

Jordan.  De  Witt    219 

Josse,  John  M 195,   293 

Judkins,  Elam  1 293 

Judkins,  Stanton,  147, 155,  183 

Juettner,   Otto    393 

Jump,  Samuel  V 92,   293 

Justice,  John  H 293 

Kahlo,  George  D. .  .  .178,  369 

Kamman,  G.  H 138 

Kappel,  .John  H 293 

Kautz.  John 293 

Kay,  David  G 195 

Kay,  Rohert   195 

Keegan,  Charles  J 293 

Keeley,    (Covington)...,    134 

Keen,  Lorenzo  S 195 

Keiper,  George  F.  .  .175,   180 

Keiser.  Alfred    195 

Kell,    (Gibson  Co.) 226 

Kell,  Mrs.  Rev.  John...    226 

Kellogg.  Norman  P 202 

Kelly,  Mathew 195 

Kelsy,  Jeremiah  S 293 

Kelso,  Reese  D 293 

Kelso,  William  H 195 

Kemper.  General  W.  H.  . 
89.  93.  174.   177.  195,  •->32, 
366.  367.  369.  370 

Kempf,  E.  .J 293 

Kempf.  Mathew    .......    293 

Kempf.  Paul    H 294 

Kendall.  Jacob  Key   .... 

,, 6,  12.  14,  15,  63,      04 

Kendall.  R.  M 3  30 

Kendrick.  William  H .  .  .    195 

Kennedy,  Hamlet  K 195 

Kennedy,  Leroy   H 195 

Kennedy,  Levi   H 155 

Kennedy,  Samuel  ..  .180,  369 
Kennedy,  Samuel   A.  155,   294 

Kennedy,  Thomas   129 

Kennedy.  Thomas    C .  .  .  .    178 

Kersey,  Silas  H 195,  294 

Kersey,  Vierling 

145,    148,     155,    176,    178, 
183.  294,  362 

Kessinger,   Ellis  M 295 

Kester,  Ephraim   124 

Ketcham,  John  D 295 

Kilgore,    Tecumseh..l95,   219 

Killen.   James    195 

Kimball,  Abner   D 195 

Kimball,  Thomas    C 205 


384 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Kimberlin,  (Jackson Co.).  140 

Kimsey,  J.  C 132 

Kinderman,  Alexander .  .    295 

King,  Enoch    W 295,   366 

King,  Henry  R 195 

King,  M.   0 335 

King,  William    F 195,  295 

Kirby,   Henry   92,   195 

Kirkpatrick.  George  W.  .    195 

Kiser.  William  P 104 

Kitchen,   John  M...156,   368 

Kivett,  John    156 

Knapp,  A.    B 287 

Knapp,  Moses   L 53 

Knepfler,  Natiian    

156,   295,   296 

Knight,    (Old   Chambers- 
burg)     135 

Knight,  James  H 195 

Knoefel,  August  F 181 

Kosdick,  G.  W 130 

Krauth,  Ferdinand    ....    195 

Kuester,  Charles  E 195 

Kunkler,  Gustave  A . .  .  .    196 

Kuykendall.    J 18,     19 

Kyle,  John  J 205 

Kynett,  William   ...209,   210 

Lamb,  James   296 

Lamberson,  H.  M 113 

Lambey,  Louis 196 

Lammers,  Frank  H 296 

Landon,  H 98 

Lane,  Daniel   S 186 

Lane,  William  Carr.7,  14,   15 

Langdon,   Harry  K 205 

Lansing.    Sylvester    ....  196 

Larkin.  John    B 196,  296 

Larkins,   Edgar  L.  ..180,  367 

Larue,  Benjamin 296 

Lash,  Hugh  M 296 

Latta,  Milton  M 

99,  156,  179.  297,  366 

Lattimore,  Finley  C .  .  .  .  196 

Laughlin,  Edmond  D 180 

Laughlin,  .John  M 211 

Laughlin,  William  B.  . .  . 

49,  75,  76,  77,  84 

Lawder,  William  G 297 

Lawrence,  Amos  O  ^  .  .  .  .  297 

Layman.  Daniel  W 297 

Layman.  Daniel   W. .  . . .  .  299 

Leach,   (Attica)    137 

Leatherman,   Joseph  H..  299 

Leavitt,  Philander  C 196 

Lee,  George  W 54 

Lee,  Henry   D 58 

Leech,  Elliott  W 196 

Leech,  Thomas   F...180,  204 

Leedv,  John  K 130,  196 

Lemon,  William  H 196 

Lennox,  Frank    299 


PAGE 

Lent,  Cyrus  V.  N 196 

Leonard,  Somervell  E..  . 

.  .  .146,  156,  183,  299,  361 

Leslie,  Alexander   

19,  156,  299 

Letcher,   J.  K 22 

Lewellen.  Wesley   92 

Lewis,  Eli    196 

Lewis,  George  C 300 

Lewis,  John  ...147,   156,  183 

Lewis,  John  1 205 

Lewis,  Samuel  B 196 

Libray.  Presley 117 

Liddall,  James  P 196 

Light,  Amos  B 300 

Lime.    (Jackson   Co.)  .  .  .  227 

Lindsley,  John    156 

Lingle,   Richard  W 300 

Lininger,  Daniel  P 196 

Link,  Harvey 156 

Linn,  Timothy  T 300 

Linnville.  Lewis  M 300 

Linton,  Samuel  M 

107,   156,   176,  300 

Lister,  F.  E 131 

Little,  H.  A 300 

Lloyd.  Frederick    156 

Lockhart,  Wilson   ..176.  180 
Lomax.  Constantine    .... 

123,  300 

Lomax,  William 

54.  120.  123,  156.  176, 

178,  196,  300,  301,  366 

Long,  E 139 

Long,  Jeremiah  H 301 

Long,   John    228 

Loring,  David  J 181 

Louks,  Thomas  C 147 

Lovel,    (Brookville) 128 

Lovett,  John  A 301 

Low,  Nathan  M 156 

Lummis,   Joseph  E 301 

Lynch,  M.   J 156 

Lyons,  Ira  E 301 

JLyons,  Lewis  D 302 

Lyons,  William    B...180,  302 


McCaskey,  George  W. .  .  . 

177, 

McCain,    (Huntsville) . .  . 

McCarthy,   John  F 

McCauley,  Robert..  .302, 

McChristie,   .John    

McClain,  James 

McClelland,  James  S. .  .  . 

156,    163.     179,    196, 

363 
McClenahan,   Thomas   J. 

156, 

McClure,  David    

McClure,  Jesse   D 

McClure,  Robert  M 


.338 
210 
196 
303 
196 
202 

304, 


220 
305 
305 
107 


jM)i:x. 


385 


PAGE 

.McClurc,  SaiuiK'l    M 196 

McConnell,  Geoi'gu   W. .  . .   132 

McConnoll,  James    132 

McCoy,  Georgf.'   K 196 

McCoy,  James  A.   (J 196 

McCoy,  John    196 

McCoy,  William   A 305 

McCoy,  William   N 305 

McCrea,  Tliomas  I' 196 

McCulloch,  James    305 

McCullougli,  Howard  . .  .  305 
McCullough,  John  L. .  63,      64 

McCully,  Charles  II 181 

McCune,  George   W 196 

McDaniel,  Cornelius  W..    305 

McDonald,  D.   H 156 

McDougal,  Charles  203 

McDougle,  Charles  ....  32 
McElwee,  (Fountain  Co.) 

137 

McFadden,  William  G .  . 

156,  196,   305 

McFall,  D.   M 156 

McFarland,   J.   B 156 

McGaughey,  Andrew  J  .  .  305 
McGaughey,  John   AV. .  .  .    156 

McGee,   Richard    196 

McGraw,  T.  A 99 

McJenkins,  F.   M 19 

McKee,  A.  B 6 

McKee,  Samuel  C.  Jr... 

6,  12,  14,     15 

McKinney,  Asa  W 196 

McKinney,  George  W.    .  .    305 

McKinstry,   John  F 305 

McLelland,  A.  J 138 

McLeod,  Angus  J 305 

McMahan,  Samuel   W .  .  .    306 

McMahan,  W.  V 220 

McMechan,  James  G. .  .  . 

156,  306 

McNamee,  Elias   

6,   14,   15,   18,   19,    63,     65 

McNary,  Charles  E 306 

McNear,  (Moonsville) . .  .    210 

McNutt,  James  H 196 

McPheeters,  John   G 306 

McPheeters,  John  S 196 

McPheeters,  Joseph  G. .  .    196 

McShane,    John   T 306 

McShirley,  James  L.  .  .  .  306 
MacCoy,  George  T 

100,   177,   368 

Maclean,  Caroline  Fitch.  302 
Maclean,  George  M.  .156,  302 
Maddox,  (Gibson  Co.)...    226 

Maddox,  Joseph 19 

Magann,  Edwin  W 196 

Mageniss,   John    196 

Mahan,  Oliver  P 

146,  156,   183 

Malone,   John   A 306 


PAGE 

Mankcr,    Lewis    106 

Mantle,  John  K.  .  .9,  19,     22 

Manuel,  Grofton    228 

Mapes,   Smith  II 306 

Markle,   John  E 306 

Marr,  Delos  B 306 

Marquim,  (Old Chambers- 
burg)    135 

Marsee,  Joseph  W 306 

Marsh,  Wells  K 54 

Marshall,  Daniel  M 307 

Martin,  James  W 196 

Martin.  John   H.   L 307 

Martin,  M.  L 156 

Martin,  Samuel    F 196 

Martin,  Samuel   M 308 

Martin,  William    II 196 

Martin,  W.  H  .  .  .  .  75.  s.",.     87 

Martin,  W.  W 196 

Mason,  Ferdinand    196 

Mason,  Charles  li 308 

Mason,  Philip    

41.   115.   116.   117 

Ma-te-a   (Indian) 28 

Mauzy.  Pt.  D 156 

Mavitv.   James   S 308 

Maxwell,  (Jackson    Co.).   140 
Maxwell,  James  D..  Sr.  . 

147,   156.   183,   308 

Maxwell,  James  D..  Jr.  .    308 

Maxwell.  O.  S 135 

Mav.  Oliver    T 308 

Mav,  Willis  L 202 

May,  Willis  L 308 

Mayer.  Carl  F 308 

Mavfield.  ClifEord  H 126 

Mayo,  William  W...156.   363 

Mears,  George  W 

57.  70.  72.  73.  146.  148, 
156,  176,  183.  308.  361, 
365 

Mears  N 19 

Medaris.  John 131.   132 

Meek.  John  A 122,   196 

Meeker,  Daniel   

52,  53,  54.  55.  69.  156, 
176,  179,  196,  310,  364 

Meeker,  Lysander    196 

Megee,  William  N 310 

Melscheimer,   Charles  T. 

196.  310 

Mendenhall,  Elihu   T. .  •  • 

Mendenhali,  J 156 

Mendenhall,  J.   R •->' 

Mendenhall,  Nathan   .... 

156.  310 

Mendenhall,  William   O. .  310 

Mendenhall,  William   T. .  19  < 

Menefee,   E.   H 220 

Meranda,  Isaac   73 

Mercer,  Thomas    C 310 


386 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Mercer,  William   M 197 

Meredith,  Marion   197 

Merit,   Nathaniel  P 197 

Merrit,  J.  N 22 

Messner,  Samuel  F 197 

Metcalf,   Charles  N 310 

Metz,  J.  J 156 

Miles,    (Newton) 137 

Miller,  Abram    0 311 

Miller,  James    197 

Miller,  M.  F 118 

Miller,  Samuel    

41,  116,  117,  118 

Millman,  John  H 311 

Millner,  Isaac  N 197 

Mills,  James  R 197 

Minich,  James  A 311 

Minshall,  Levi    93,     94 

Mitchel.  Walter  J 311 

Mitchell,  D.    B 49 

Mitchell,  D.    G 49 

Mitchell.  Elisha   V 197 

Mitchell,  Giles  B..  .  .156,  313 

Mitchell,  Harvey    313 

Mitchell,  James  F 311 

Mitchell,  John  D 180 

Mitchell,  Robert 197 

Mitchell,  Robert   S 197 

Mitchell,  Samuel  E 92 

Mitchell,  Samuel  G 

31.  33,  43,  49,     50 

Mitchell,  T.    G 220 

Mock,  John   W 137 

Mock,  Samuel  I 138 

Modesett,  Charles  B..61,     62 

Modricker,  John  M 313 

Moffett,  John    

75,  87,  156,  176,  179,  180, 

313 
Moffett,  Joseph    

41,  84.   113,  115,   116,   128 

Moffltt,  John 197 

Monroe,  Jasper  R 

139,   140,  197,   227 

Monroe,  Victor   H 228 

Montgomery,  David  B. .  .    313 
Montgomery,  George  B..    197 

Monteith,  Jacob  S 197 

Moodey,  .John  W 

.  .  .147.  156,  162,  183,   313 

Mooney,  Henry  C 313 

Moore,  (Cumberland)     .  .      95 
Moore,  (Indianapolis)    ..    365 

Moore,  Anderson   M 202 

Moore.  Charles  V 313 

Moore,  Harry  S 205 

Moore,  Harvey   A 205 

Moore,  John    203 

Moore,  John  B 313 

Moore,  Maurice  G 181 

Moore,  R.  C 156 

Moore.  Richard  S 314 


PAGE 

Morgan,  (Jackson   Co.)..  139 

Morgan,  Daniel    156 

Morgan,  James  W 197 

Morgan,  Ralph   G 314 

Morgan,  Robert   H 314 

Morgan,  Samuel    B 314 

Morgan,  William    J... 92,  211 

Morgan,  William  V 314 

Morris,  (Brookville)    .  . .  129 

Morris,  J.  M 156 

Morrow,  Doctor  F 197 

Morrow,  James  L 197 

Morse,  M.  F 132 

Moss,  Gordon  A 197 

Mothershead,  F.  M 157 

Mothershead,  John   L.  .  . 

32,    33,    43,    73,    145,  146. 

156.  179,  183,  314 

Mothershead,  J.  L 314 

Mulhauser,  H 157 

Mulhauser,  M 157 

Mullane,  Joseph   314 

Mullen,  Alexander  J. .  .  . 

129,    130,    145,    157,  183, 

197,  314 
Mullen,  Bernard  F 

129,    130,    147.    157,  183, 

315 
Mullen,  Cora  E 

315,   316,  317 

Mullen,  John  W 

147,   157.  183,  316 

Mullinix,  Maston  G.197,  317 
Munford,    Samuel    E..  .  . 

177,  197,  317 

Murdock,  George  D .  .  49,  128 

Murphy,  Alexander  D .  .  .  197 

Murphy,  Alexander   M. .  .  197 

Murphy,  Edward    157 

Murphy,  Pierson    319 

Murray,  Alfred  L 319 

Murray,  Ralph   V 197 

Myers,  Seth   F 197 

Myers,  William  D Jl  97 

Myers,  William  H 

197,   319,  370 

Nash,  George  W 821 

Neat,  Thomas  C 197 

Neely,  John  M 197 

Negl'ey,  D.  N 157 

Nelson,  William  Y 197 

Nesbit,  Thomas    19 

Nesbitt.  Joseph  A..  .157,  321 

New,   George  W. 

.  .  .147,  157,  183.  197,  321 
Newcomer.  Frisby  S. .  .  . 

157,   321,  365 

Newkirk.  A.  L 140,  228 

Newland.  Benjamin   .... 

157.  177.   '179,    180,  197. 
321 


JM)i:.\. 


oo- 
■tnt 


I'AGE 

Xewland,  Klijali  K 157 

Newland,  Harold  C 205 

Newland,  James    H 321 

Newton,   William  T 321 

Nichols,    John   D 197 

Niei-man,  Herman  G .  .  .  .  322 

Niles,  John  B 52,  53,  54 

Niman,  Charles  H 322 

Niraan,  Jonas    1' 322 

Noble,  B.    S 129 

Noble,  Thomas   B.,    Sr. .  . 

.  .  322 

.  .  322 


Noland,   Stacy  T 

Norris,  Samuel  C 

North,  Eugene  B 

Nutt,  John   

73,   146,   i; 

Nuzum,  D.  I* 


O'Connor,  John  Z 

O'Ferrall,  Robert  M.  .  .  . 

157,   179,   197, 

Ofifutt,  T.  F 

Ogden,  Joseph    

O'Haver,  J.   K 

Olcutt.  W.  A 

Olds.  Joseph  H 

Oliver,  David    44, 

Oliver,  Dandridge  H.  .  .  . 

Oliver,  John   H 

Omo,  Joseph  H 

O'Neal,  Laughlin  ..  .157, 

O'Rear,  Charles  D 

Origan,   James  F 

Orr,  James  1' 

Orvis,  John  Quincy 

O'Ryan,  C.  D.  B 

Osgood,  Howard  G 

Osterman,  A.  G....138, 
Owen,  Abraham  M 


183 
220 

220 

302 
'  19 
137 

19 
157 
197 

49 

322 

309 

322 

197 

322 
20 

197 
229 
118 
197 
227 


Pabody,  Ezra  Fitch 

44.  322,   323 

Palmiter,   Clebron    98 

Pantzer,  Hugo  0 264 

Paris,  Absalom    220 

Paris,  William    220 

Parker,  G.  B 157 

Parker,  Joseph   323 

Parks,  Edward  R .  .  .  3  30,  197 

Parks,  William    130 

Parmerlee,  H.  M 203 

Parr,  John  N 323 

Parr,  Thomas   E 323 

Parry,   Charles    - 

45,  73,  146,  157.   178,  183, 

323,  .324,  361,  367 

Parsons,   George  W 197 

Parvin.  Theophilus   .... 

2,    99.    157,    176,    178,  202. 

324,  325,  326 

Patrick,  Septer 56,  57 


Patten,  James  C 

.  ., 197,   227. 

Patterson.  John  J 

Patterson,  Philijj    I».211. 

Patterson.  R.  J , 

;i45,   148,   157. 

Pattison,  George  W 

Patton,   Alfred    

.  .  .3,   11.    22,    74.   185, 

Payne,  J.  H . 

Paynter,  Christian  L... 

Pearce,  John  W 

Pearman,  Francis  M. .  .  . 
198. 

Pearson,  Charles  D 

]  98, 

Peck,   Samuel  W. .     .  ]  98, 

Pegann,  Emanuel    

I'egg,  Jesse  A 

147,   157.   183, 

Pence,  Rollin   

Pennington,  I.   I 

Pennington,  Joel    

53.   41,  157,   177.   178. 
327 

Pennington,  .T.  W 

Pennington.  W.   D 

Pepper,  William  J..  118, 
P  e  r  c  c  V  al,    (^ Lawrence- 
burg)     

Perkins  Conrad  S 

Perry,  David    

I'erry,  John    W 

Personett,  L.  D 

Pettijohn,  Amos    

Pettijohn,  Deming    

Peyton,  David  C 

174,   178,  205, 

Pf aff,  John  A 

Phillips,  Charles   W 

Phillips,  R.    N 

J^hipps.  John  M  .  .  .  .  198. 

Piatt.   William  C 

Pickthall.  Arthur   

Pier,    ( Centerville ) ...  38, 

Pierson,   Allen    

Pitcher,   Stewart    

Pitzer,  Andrew  B 

Pleasants,   John   H. .  .  73, 

Plummer,  Isaac  N 

Plummer,  J.  T 37, 

Poffenberger,  Isaiah   .  .  . 

Polke,  Thomas    63, 

Pope,  Henry  E 

Porter,  Albert    G. .  .  .  180, 

Porter,  John  P 

Porter,  .Joseph    

Porter,  Miles    F 

Porter.  William    r> 

Posey,  John   W 19, 

Pottenger,  Wilson  


PAGK 

327 
198 
220 

183 
198 

186 
140 
327 
198 


198 

209 
327 
226 

179, 

19 
368 
328 

44 
198 
211 
220 
157 
328 

54 

254 
206 
328 
328 
328 
198 
198 

39 

73 
198 
328 
157 
198 

38 
198 

64 
198 
328 
198 

19 
177 
328 
328 
198 


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INDEX. 


PAGE 

Potter.  Theodore 

181,   276,   368 

Potts,  John  198 

Poucher.  Charles  H.  C .  .    328 

Powers,  James  H 92 

Pratt,  Joel   220 

Pratt,  Samuel  R 198 

Pressley,  William  H 157 

Preston,    ( Middletown ) . .    209 
Preston.  Albert   G 

147.    157,    179,    183,    198, 

328 

Preston,  Samuel   C 330 

Price,  James  M 125 

Prigg.  Edward  C 330 

Pritehett,  John 40,  198 

Proegler.  Carl    330 

Prunk,  Daniel  H 198 

Pugh,  Joseph,  Sr 220 

Pugh;  J.  W 22 

Pugh.  John   W 330 

Pugh,  Joseph,  Jr 220 

Pugh,  Mahlon    330 

Pugh,  William  A 

:. 37,  75,  330 

Purviance,  Samuel  W. .  .    330 

Ouick.  John  H 128 


Rainev,  Harvey  W 

Ralston,  William  G 

Ramsey,  (Jackson  Co.)  .  . 
Ramsey,  C.  S 

146,  157, 

Randall,  W.  D 

Ransburg,  Martin  V 

Rathert.  William  H 

Rea,  George  N 

Rea,  John 157, 

Read,  Ezra    

56.   74,  162,   198,   330. 

Read,  Thomas  M 

Reader,   William    

Reagan,  Amos    W. .  ..157, 

Reagan,  Jesse   157. 

Reasoner,  William  M .  .  . 

Record,  Samuel   

Reed,  Albert  S 

Reed,  C.   S 

Reed,  E.  P 

Reel,  Alfred   

Reeves,  Uriah  G 

Reid,   Samuel    157. 

Reiley,  William  F 

Renner.  John  G.  E 

Rerick,  John  H 

Reynolds,    (Brookston). . 

Reynolds.  Robert  C 

Rice,   C.   D 

Richards.  George  W.   .  .  . 

Richards.  Samuel    D 

Richardson.    (Monon) . .  . 


330 

198 
140 

183 
98 
330 
206 
330 
330 


.332 

157 
157 
198 
198 
332 
157 
198 
99 
228 

332 
179 
332 
332 
198 
131 
198 
132 
53 
198 
131 


PAGE 

Richardson,  Adamson  G.  198 
Richardson,  George  T. .  .  333 
Richardson,  Nehemiah  . .  333 
Richmond,  Corydon    .... 

208,  333,   366 

Richmond,  John   L 

208.    221,   334.   393 

Rider,  Daniel  M 221 

Riffle,  John  S 137,  198 

Ringo,   James  L 221 

Ritchie,  James    104,  105 

Ritchie,  John    103 

Ritter,  John   A 198 

Ritter,  Levi    157 

Ritter,  Mary     132 

Robb,   Andrew    209 

Robbins,  Alfred  H..179,   334 

Robbins,  Clark    157 

Robbinson,  John  A. ....  .    198 

Robertson,    (Vallonia)  .  .    140 

Robinson,  Lanson   D 198 

Robinson,  William   E..  .  .    158 

Robson,  John  R 198 

Robson.  Robert    198 

Rockwell,  William    198 

Rodman,    (Freetown)  .  .  .   140 

Roe,  E.    R 209 

Roe,  John    L 139,   198 

Roe.  John  S 158 

Roesgen,    (Dudleytown)  .    139 

Roether,  Daniel  B 198 

Rogers,  Clarke    335 

Rogers,  Dudley    198 

Rogers,  Joseph   G....335,   336 
Rogers,  Joseph  H.  D. .  .  . 

147,   158,   183,   335 

Roland,  Henry    B .  .  .  106,  107 

Rooker,  James  I 

158,   199,   336 

Ronalds,  Hugh 158 

Rose,  Gustavus    A 52 

Rose,  Joseph    103 

Rose,  Madison  H 

199.   336 

Rosegan,  Philip 228 

Rosenthal,  Isaac  M 

180,  336 

Rosenthal,  J 158 

Ross,  Charles  A 338 

Ross,  Jonathan    338 

Ross,  Justin  P 338 

Rous,  Hannah  C 338 

Rowan,   B.   C 27,   158 

Rowland,  George   133 

Rowland,  Thomas   136 

Rowland,  Willard    158 

Rubish,  David  P 339 

Ruby.   Alfred    117 

Rucker,  T.  H 158,   361 

Ruddell,  A.  G 73,  209 

Runcie.    E.    T 158 

Rundell,  Alpharis  E 339 


INDEX. 


389 


PAGE 

Kiipei-t,  Delos  W 199 

Rush,  Lorenzo    134 

Russell,  E.  T 85 

Russell,  George   H 199 

Russell,  Isaac    C 199 

Ruter,   Rinaldo  R 199 

Rutledge,   William    199 

Ryan,  Townsend 

145,     158,     178,    183.  199, 

221 

Rynerson,  J.  N 158 

Sabine,  Elias  H 199 

Sackett,    (Centerville)  .  .  38 

Sadler,   Joseph   J 199 

St.  Clair,  Owen 200 

St.  John,  Samuel   

121,  122 

Salb,   James  P 181 

Salisbury,  David    199 

Sanborn,  Perley  P 339 

Sanders.  John  H 

33.  73.  144,  146,  148.  149, 

158,  183 

Sanford,  James  H 339 

Sapper,   (Jackson  Co.)  . .  140 

Sarber.  William  E 130 

Saunders.  Joseph   222 

Sawyer,   J.   S 19 

Scearce,  John  C 199 

Schafer.    Albert   F 339 

Schell,  Frederick    A 190 

Schell,  Walker    177 

Scherer,  Simon  P 3 

Schmidt,  Elizabeth    339 

Schmidt,  Gustavus    A.  .  .  199 

Schmidtz,  Charles 339 

Schonover,  William  S....i58 

Schultz,  Guv  A 206 

Schultz,  Oscar  T 339 

Schultz,  W^illiam  H 180 

Schussler,   Charles    199 

Schweitzer,  i^da   E 371 

Scott,    (Newtown)    135 

Scott,  Daniel  V 339 

Scott,  Gideon    339 

Scott,  William    199 

Scott,  William    339 

Scott,  William  G 199 

Scrambling.   William  H.  340 
Scribner,  William  A.... 

146,  158,  183,  340 

Scudder,  .John  A 199 

Scudder.  K.  A 32.  49 

Scull.  David  C 340 

Seaton,  William  H 340 

Sevenick.  Bernard 26 

Severance.   Lagrange   . .  .  340 

Severn,  Mrs.  John 225 

Sexton.  Horatio  G 

75.   76.   77,   78,   84.   85.   87. 

179,   340 


Sexton,  John  C 

Sexton,  Marshall    

43,    49,     75.    80,    85. 

177.  199,  340 

Shaffer.  Abner  H 

Shald.  F.  S 

Shaplev.  William  W.  .  .  . 
Sharp,  Harrv  C.    .  .  .181. 

Sharp,  W.  M 

Sheldon.  George  W 

Shell.   Ogden   G 

Shellhamer,  Carey 

Sherman,    ( Newtown ). .  . 

Sherman.   Mason   G 

Sheppard.  M 

Sherrod,  R.  W 

Sherrod,  William  F 

Sherwin.  Herman   H. .  .  . 

Shewmaker.  L.  Z 

Shidler,  Arthur  L 

Shields,  (Courtland)  ..  . 
Shields,  .John  T.  .  .  .14tt. 
Shields.  Pleasant  S 

146,    158,     179.     183. 

361.   362 
Shipman,  Azariah  B.   .  .  . 

'*'■'>. 

Shipman.  Norbourn   N. .  . 

Shirts.   Elmer    

Shively,  James  S...122. 
Shoots,  see  Chutes.  Geo. 
Shoptaugh.   Shelton  H.. 

Short.  Wesley   

Showalter.  D.  T 

Shuler,  Laurence  S 

.  .7,   60,  61.  63.  64.  t;."! 
Shumard,  George  B 

19.  ::i 

Sieber,  .John  A 

Silroy,  B.   S 

Simison,   John    

Simms,   .John   M 

Simonson.  James  C 

Sims.  T.   S 

Sinex,  William  G 

146.   158.   183, 

Siver,   Emmett  L 

Skiff.  Clark 92. 

Skinner.  .John  A....  158. 

Skull.  E 7. 

Slaughter,  Robert  C.  .  .  . 
Slaughter,  William  W. .  . 

Slavens.  Zenas  L 

Sloan,  George  W 

Sloan,  John   

146,     148,    158.     176. 

183,  342,  361 

Smelser,'  J.  W 

Smiley,  (New  Columbus) 
Smith,  (.Jackson  Co.)... 
Smith.  (Fort  Wavne)  .. 
Smith.  Andrew    J.  .  .199, 


PAGE 

.  177 
158, 


199 
48 
199 
360 
211 
199 
206 
340 
137 
199 
158 
1.58 
199 
199 
140 
340 
140 


:Uu. 


54 
341 
341 
341 
14n 
341 
l<t!i 
341 


i.  y'}(> 

».  21 
.341 
118 
341 
199 
199 
222 

841 
205 

170 
14 
199 
199 
199 
342 

179, 

158 
210 
140 
25 
342 


390 


INDEX. 


PAGE 

Smith,    Caleb     (Boneset- 

ter)    119 

Smith,  Carter  H 180 

Smith,  Hiram 

100,  101,   106 

Smith,  Hubbard  M 

9,    17,    19,    22,    158,    342, 

343 

Smith,  Isaac    158 

Smith,  Jacob  J 204 

Smith,  J.   C 212 

Smith,  John  W 199 

Smith,  John    W 343 

Smith,  Lester  F 343 

Smith,  Samuel  E 336 

Smith,  Theophilus   E 343 

Smith,  W.  A 22 

Smith,  Wickliffe  .  .  .205,  343 
Smith,  William  B.  . .  .37,     38 

Smith,  William  G 343 

Smith,  William  R 

73,  96,   145,   158,  183,   199 

Smith,  William  Z 199 

Smydth,  William  C 199 

Smvthe,  Gonsolvo  C .  .  . 

: 177.   199,   .343 

Snyder,  (Indianapolis)  .  .      49 

Snyder,  William  V 103 

Somers,  Joseph  ..  .7,  19,  158 

Sommer,  Edgar  L 206 

Spain.  Archibald  W.199,  344 

Spalding,  Lyman 64 

Spann,  Benjamin  F 223 

Sparks,  James  B 344 

Sparks,  Nathan  B ,    199 

Speed,  Edward  B 199 

Spence,  William  F 

122.  211 

Spencer,  Robert    158,  199 

Spencer,  William   ...158,  199 

Spinning,  .John  N 344 

Spinning,  Newton    136 

Spottswood,    Edmond   T. 

158,  19S 

Sprinkle,  W.  B 22 

Spurgeon,  William  A.  .  . 

.  .: 234,   259,   281 

Spuirrier,  John  H 

200.  202,   344 

Squire,  William  B. 200 

Stacy,  George  W...130,  158 
Stage,  Louis  J 

140.   227,   344 

Stahle,  Daniel    19 

Stanton.  D.    S 344 

Starr,  Her  D 344 

Starrett,  Walter  K 206 

Stearns,  Ellas  P 200 

Steele,  (Greenburg)  ....  117 
Steele,  Armstrong  T.  . .  .  344 
Steelsmith,  John  M 344 


PAGE 


Stemm,  William  H 

181,  248 

Stephenson,  David  W . 
Stephenson,  Joseph  .  . 
Stevens,  Benjamin  C. . 

Stevens,  Oliver  P 

Stevens,  Robert    

Stevens,  Thaddeus   M . 

69,    71,    72,    73,    158, 

366 

Stewart,  John  L 

Stewart,  Jonas 

177,   180, 

Stewart,  William  D 

Stewart,  William  J 

Stillson,  Joseph 

Stillwell,  Joseph  A.. 200, 
Stipp,  George  Winfield. . 

Stockwell,  Robert    

Stockwell,  Sarah  F 

Stone,  R.  French 

2    232, 

Stough,  S 

Stout,   Oliver  H 

Stuart,  O.  G 

Study,  James  M 

Stukey,  John  M 

Stunkard,  Thomas  C. .  . . 

Strong,  John  T 201, 

Suman,  William   

Summers,  Osa  R 

Sutton,  George    

158,    160,    163,    176. 

346,     363,     365,     366, 

Sutton,  James  A 

Sutton,  Willis  E 

Swafford,  Benjamin  F .  . 

200, 

Swain,  William   

Swallow,   George  E 

Swarts,   David   J 

200, 

Sweeny,  Thomas  J 

Sweezy,  William  C 


323 
181 
223 
344 
344 
135 

345, 

345 

207 
203 
200 
345 
345 
204 
226 
345 


370 
98 
158 
19 
203 
200 
205 
345 
223 
347 

179, 
367 
347 
347 


347 
212 
223 

348 
200 
200 


Taggart,  John  F 200 

Taggart,  Samuel  C 348 

Talbott,  Hiram  E 

147,   158,   183 

Tate,  William   158 

Tayler,  W.   H 147,   183 

Taylor,  Alfred  B 200 

Taylor,  Daniel  W 200 

Taylor,  F.  W 130 

Taylor,  Timothy    .'..131,  158 

Taylor,  William  D 200 

Taylor,  W.  W 118 

Teal,  Norman   

99,  200,   348 

Terhune,  R.  W 

304,  319,   369 

Terrill,  Luther  B 223 


INDEX. 


391 


PAGE 

Ten-ill,  William  11.,  Sr.  . 

348 

Ten-ill,  William  II.,  Jr.  . 

348 

Terry,  Charles  C 1 81 

Terry,  L.  E 130 

Thomas,  (Brookstonj     .  .  131 

Thomas,  (Fishersburg)  .  .  210 

Thomas,  Andrew  J 

22,  348 

Thomas,  Charles  L 200 

Thomas,  Ellas  B 200 

Thomas,  James    ....113,  114 

Thomas,  James  H 200 

Thomas,  John  H 200 

Thomas,  L.  C 202 

Thomas,  M.  W 158 

Thomas,  Mary  F 348 

Thomas,  Warren  H 348 

Thomas,  William   IT 348 

Thompson,  A.  H 118 

Thompson,  A.  M 228 

Thompson,  Daniel  A 348 

Thompson,  James  L.   .  .  .  202 

Thompson,  John  C 200 

Thompson,  John   II 349 

Thompson,  John  J 349 

Thompson,  Joseph    22 

Thompson,  L.   G 25 

Thompson,  Thomas    B. .  .  19 

Thompson,  W.  E 158 

Thompson,  William  Clin- 
ton   

73,  146,  158,  183,  203,  349 

Thorne,  J.  C.  F 349 

I'ichnor,  James 

146,  158,  183 

Tilford,  John   H 200 

Tilford,  Salem  A 349 

Tillson,  Hosea    200,  349 

Tilman,   Jonathan  R....  200 
Tinch,  (Jackson   Co.)  .  .  . 

140,  228 

Tingley,  Uriah  B 

117.  118,  349 

Tinker,  M.  B 369 

Tisdale,  Elijah    

4,  5.  6,   11,   12,   13,   14,  15 

Todd,  Henry  G 159 

Todd,  Levi  L 349 

Todd,  L.  L.,  Jr 159 

Todd,  Robert  N 

70,  72,  159,  176,  180,  200, 

349    365 

Todd,  William  A 200 

Tolerton,  James    200 

Toms,  Alpheus 351 

Torbet,   (Wilmington)...  44 

Torbet,  George  A 200 

Torry,  John  L 53 

Town,   R.   R 159,  361 

Townsend,  Lydia   ...252,  299 


PAGE 

Townsend.  Tr-rry  M.    ...  206 

Trask.  Ezra  Sti'lt-s 120 

Treat.    (Allen   Co..» 25 

Trembly,  D 118 

Trembly.  G.  D 351 

Trent,  Isaac  X 181.  368 

Truesdale,  (  \'incennes) . .  18 

Triplett.   Charles   E 200 

Trowbridge.  William  V..  351 

Trueblood.   Charles    ....  368 

Tucker,  Thomas  M .351 

Turnce,   fTerre  Haute)..  62 

Turnei-,  (Allen  Co.i 24 

Turner.  George  W. 351 

Twiford.   Willis  II 200 

Tyler.  W.  W. .  .  ". 159 

Tyner.   Samuel  L 200 

Underbill.  Joshua  W...  200 
Uphane.  (Fort  Wayne)..  25 
Usher,   Nathaniel    125 

Vaile,   Joel    

37.   38.   159.  200 

Van  Buskirk.  Aaron  E .  .  351 

Van  Buskirk.  Edmund  M.  181 

Van  Meter.  Isaac  X 223 

Van  Xuys.   S.  C 351 

Van  Voi'his,  Flavins  J.. 

180,  200 

Vance.   S.  W 118 

Vanderbark.  Peter    159 

Vanuise.    (Vanoo.se )    Da- 
vid  139,  227 

Vickrev.  Absalom  M. .  .  . 

159.  351 

Vickrey.  Martin  V.  B.  .  .  351 

Vincent,  Henry    C...200.  351 

Vincent.  Jereraiah  K.  . .  .  200 

Vincent,  O.J 98 

Vinsenne.    Francis    Mor- 
gan de    4 

Vorees.    (Allen  Co.)....  24 

Voyles,  David  W. .....  .  200 

Waite.    ("Fountain  Co.)..  137 

Waldo,   Loring  A 40 

Walker,  Augustus  C.   .  .  .  200 

Walker.  David  R 351 

Walker.  Edward    351 

Walker,  Edwin    

174,  177,  260 

Walker,  George   B 

159.   179.  351 

Walker.  Isaac  C 351 

Walker.  .Tames  K 352 

Walker.  John  C 352 

Walker,  John  T 

159.  186,  200 

AValker,  Madison    G 

208,  223 


392 


IXDEX. 


Walker,  Oscar  C 

Wall,  David   

Wallace,  A.  G 

Wallace,  Cliarles    

145,  159,  178, 

Wallace,  James  P 

Wallace,  Lew,    Gen 

Walter,  C.  G 

Walton.  Allen  M 

Ward,  W.  J 

Wardner,  Horace    

Warfel,  Frederick  C 

Warford,  Franklin  M. .  . 

Warner,  Itliamar    

Warner,  W.  C 

Washburn,  Israel  B 

200, 

Washburn,  Joseph  L.  ... 
Washburn,  Robert  K.  . .  . 
Waterman,  Luther  D .  .  . 

70,   142,  177, 

Waters,  John  C 

Watson.  C.  D 133, 

Watts,  Eber  K 

Watts,  (Madison  Co.)... 
Wear,   (Madison  Co.)  .  .  . 

Weaver,  Samuel  M 

Webb,  (Franklin)    

Webb,  William  A 

Webber,  Irwin  AV 

Weddington,   Samuel  C. 

201, 

Weeks,  Joseph   

210,  224, 

Weicht,  William   

Weighmer,  H.  J 

Weir,  Andrew  N 

Weist,  Jacob  R 

.  .  .159,  177,  202,  353, 
Welborn,  George   W. .  . .  . 

Welborn,  J.  C 

Welborn,  William  P.  .  .  . 
Weldon.  Samuel  J 

.  .  .133,  137,  146.  159, 
AVellman,   Richard  M.  .  . 

Wells,  .Tames  C 

Wells.  John  T 

Wells,  Samuel    140, 

Welman,  Richmond  M.  . 

201, 

Wermuth.  Adolph  F .  .  .  . 

Wert,  E.  D 

Wert,  Samuel    

138,  IBQ, 

West.  Calvin    

159,    164,    165,    179. 

354 
West,  Vincent  T.   ...... 

Westerfield,  Cyrus    

Westerfleld.  John  W.  ... 
Wetherill,  Charles  M.    .  . 

150, 


PAGE 
.     159 

.    352 
.    159 


183 
200 

33 
352 
200 

98 
352 
270 
352 

36 

19 


102 

352 

200 
352 
138 
353 

44 
212 
200 

54 
201 
131 


353 

353 

132 

27 

201 

364 
353 
159 
201 

184 
159 
201 
138 

228 

353 
354 
140 

140 

180, 

354 
211 
224 


354 


PAGE 

Wetherill,  R.  B 355 

Wheeldon,   John    202 

Wheeler,    (Muncie) 92 

Whipple,    (Brookville)  .  .    129 

Whitaker,  Eli  D 201 

Whitcomb,   James  H..  .  .    355 

White,  Arthur    201 

White,  Charles  A 181 

White,  J.  F 355 

White,  Jacob  S 201 

White,  James  B 201 

White,  John  M 201 

White,  William    184 

Whitehall,  Alexander  L. 

137,  201 

Whitesell,  Joseph  M.    ...  201 
Whitesell,  Philip  P 

201.   355 

Whittlesey.  William  C.  .      63 
Wickersham,  Xoah  L .  .  .    224 

Widmer,  John  F.  B 201 

Wilcox,  J.  R 159 

Wiles,    (Rockford)    227 

Wiles,  William   V 

180.   201,   355 

Wilev,  .John  Hezekiah. .  . 

147,  184 

Wilkinson.  James  J 355 

Willard,  Rowland    

, 130,  159 

Willard,  William  C 92 

Williams,  Charles  S.   .  .  .    355 

Williams,  Elkanah    355 

Williams,  Hugh    T 356 

AVilliams,  J.   A 92 

Williams,  John    210 

Williams,  John 356 

Williams,  Joseph  P. 356 

Williams,  Leroy  B 356 

Williams,  Lewis     356 

Williams.  S.  T 98 

Williams.  T.   B 356 

Williams,  W.  H 92 

Williamson.  (Rockford)  .    227 
Williamson,  C.  T 

139,   140 

Williamson,  Eleazer    ....    201 

Williamson,  John    139 

Williamson,  Robert  A.  .  .    201 

Williamson,  T.  A 140 

Williamson,  Thomas  W.C. 

201 

Williamson,  W.  T 356 

Wilson,  Isaac    201 

Wilson,  Jacob  B 201 

Wilson,  James   201 

Wilson,  James   205 

Wilson,  James  B 159 

Wilson.  J.  H 356 

Wilson,  James  W 159 

Wilson,  John  R 159 


INDEX. 


3'j:i 


PAGE 

Wilson,  Marshall   Y.    ... 

139,  228 

Wilson,  Robert  Q 356 

Wilstach,  C.  F I.jU 

Wimmer,  .James  M 350 

Winans,  Henry  C.  .  .  .92,  350 

Winans,  Kichard     201 

Winchel,  George   117 

Winton,  Horace    ....  159,  356 

Winton,  Robert    

91,  92,  159,  356 

Winton,  William  R 

159,  179 

Wise,  W^  H 22 

AVishard,  Joseph  M 

.201,  357 

Wishard,  William  H.  .  .  . 

2,    31,    32,    54,     142,  146, 

148,     159,     177,    181,  184, 

357,     367.     368 
Wishard.  William  X.   ... 

174,  177 

Witherspoon.  Martin  ...  22 

Witt,  William  B 

Wolf,  Harvev  S 201 

Wolf,  J.  G 159 

AYolvertou,  .1.  D.  .  .7,  19,  20 

Wonsetler.   Gideon    201 

Wood,  Hugh  D 98,  180 

Wood,  James   A 201 

Wood,  Meredith    203 

Wood.  William  M 204 

W^oodburn,  Frederick  C. .  357 
W^oodburn,  James  H.   . .  . 

...  .73.   159,  177,   180,  357 

Wooden.  John  L.  ...201,  357 


Wooden,  William   H.    ... 

Woods,  (.'alvin  J 

Woods.  Daniel  L 

Woodward,  <  Rockf ord ) . . 
Woodvvorth.  Benjamin  S. 

99,  159,  176, 

Woody    

Woolen,  Green  V 

Woolen,  Levin  .J 

Wooley,  Amos   

Wort.   Samuel    

Worthington,  (Attica) . . 
Wright,  Charles  E 

206, 

Wright,  Charles  H 

Wright,  Ervin    

Wright,  Ivv  E 

Wright,  John  F 

Wright,  H.  Mansur    .... 

Wright,  J.  Joel    

AA  right,  John    

Wright,  R 

Wyley,  D 

Wyman,  Henry  .  .  .  .209. 
Wynn,  Frank  B 


PAGE 

.    357 

.    201 

201 

■>07 


ii.Jl 

362 
201 
358 
131 
159 
135 

359 
359 
180 
201 
159 
159 
159 
211 
98 
159 
224 
370 


Yandes,   Simon    72 

Yeakle.  D.  T 159 

Yockev.  David  H 359 

Yohn,  Edwin  F 359 

Yohn.  William  A 359 

Youart,   John   M 201 

Young.  (Frankton)     ....  211 

Young.  Stephen   J 332 

Younkman.  A.  B 360 

Yount.   Silas  T 180 


Note. — The  photograph  of  Dr.  John  L.  Richmond,  from 
which  the  cut  was  made  facing  page  334.  was  kindly  loaned 
to  me  by  Dr.  Otto  Juettner  of  Cincinnati.  Dr.  .luettner 
deserves  praise  for  his  energy  and  perseverance  in  discover- 
ing this  picture  of  a  remarkable  man.  The  photograph  was 
reproduced  from  an  oil  painting. — G.W.H.K. 


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